US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Reducing write amplification and over-provisioning using flash translation layer synchronization" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,564, issued on Aug. 12.

"Reducing write amplification and over-provisioning using flash translation layer synchronization" was invented by Kapil Karkra (Chandler, Ariz.), Wojciech Malikowski (Gdansk, Poland), Mariusz Barczak (Gdansk, Poland) and Shirish Bahirat (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host Flash Translation Layer (FTL) synchronizes host FTL operations with the drive FTL operations to reduce write amplification and over-provisioning. Embodiments of FTL synchronization map, at the host FTL software (SW) stack level, logical bands in which data is managed, referred to as host bands, to the physical bands on a d...