US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Hinting mechanism for efficient accelerator services" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,292, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Hinting mechanism for efficient accelerator services" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid State Drive (SSD) devices with hardware accelerators and methods for apportioning storage resources in the SSD are disclosed. SSDs typically comprise an array of non-volatile memory devices and a controller which manages access to the memory devices. The controller may also comprise one or more accelerators to either improve the performance of the SSD itself or to offload specialized computation workloads...