ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,093, issued on June 30, was assigned to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and media for processing sub-indirection-unit data in solid-state drives" was invented by Vinit Vyas (Folsom, Calif.) and Rucha Rasane (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms, including systems, methods, and media, for processing sub-indirection unit sized data in a solid-state drive (SSD) are provided, the methods including: identifying, in a first portion of storage of the SSD, a plurality of indirection units each containing sub-indirection-unit-sized data and padding; combining the plurality...