ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,806, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for statically mapping random write command data" was invented by Abhinandan Venugopal (Bengaluru, India), Amit Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Sourabh Sankule (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory array including blocks of non-volatile memory cells and a control circuit coupled to the memory array. The control circuit is configured to receive first write commands, determine that the first write commands satisfy predetermined criteria, and process the first write commands by: statically ma...