US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 12 for "Data retention for efficient consolidation processing in NVM" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,632, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data retention for efficient consolidation processing in NVM" was invented by Marina Frid (Jerusalem), Vered Kelner (Gan Haim, Israel) and Igor Genshaft (Bat Yam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing a consolidation process, entries (uRuns) in the update region (uRegion) of an update layer (uLayer) are typically erased immediately after the data in the uRuns is updated to a master layer (mLayer). The data may, at a later time, be copied back to the uRuns for read purposes. Rather than erasing the uRuns and then copying the data back ...