ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,052, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Intelligent storage device to execute a hint search" was invented by Joji Joseph (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device enables a host to search for data stored across channels on a memory device without reading the user data stored on the channels. The storage device includes a memory device including user channels to store user data and a hash channel to store hash data associated with the user data. The hash data is used to identify the user data. A controller on the storage device generates the hash data includin...