US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 24 for "Managing read look ahead caching in storage devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,586, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Managing read look ahead caching in storage devices" was invented by Akhilesh Yadav (Bengaluru, India), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Shiv Kumar Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device manages a read look ahead (RLA) buffer with fluctuating RLA caching. The storage device includes a memory device to store data in a format including upper, middle, and lower pages and an RLA buffer to store data retrieved from the memory device. When a controller on the storage device receives a host read request, the con...