US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Dynamic zone group creation and recalibration balancing" (British, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,622, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dynamic zone group creation and recalibration balancing" was invented by Karin Inbar (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Liam Parker (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Stephen Gold (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to creating and recalibrating zone groups. Rather than having a fixed zone group size, the zone group size can be dynamic where the data storage device provides a range of zone group sizes to a host device. Based upon block availability and host device commands, new zone groups may be formed ...