US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 26 for "Method for supporting increased logical capacity using thin provisioning without increasing dram size" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,201, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method for supporting increased logical capacity using thin provisioning without increasing dram size" was invented by Nicholas Thomas (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Dylan Dewitt (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen Gold (Fort Collin, Colo.) and Daniel Tuers (Kapaa, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device provides thin provisioning by presenting more logical capacity than available physical capacity. The storage device uses a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) having a size that is proportional to the available physical capacity of the storage de...