ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,033, issued on June 10.
"Quality of service (QOS) optimized open block closure" was invented by Oleg Kragel (San Jose, Calif.), Ji-Hyun In (Saratoga, Calif.), Aajna Karki (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaoying Li (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device optimizes block closure in a memory device and maintains quality of service provided to a host device. The storage device receives commands from a host device and writes host data to a block in the memory device in a first state. When the storage device has not received a host write command for a host write idle time period, the storage device transitions to a second ...