ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,069, issued on Sept. 30.

"SSD with multiple bandwidth tiers based on physical characteristics" was invented by Jorge Ulises Martinez Araiza (Beaverton, Ore.), Michael Leslie Roy (Westminster, Colo.) and Andrew Morning-Smith (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include a substrate and a controller coupled to the substrate, the controller including circuitry to control access to a NAND-based storage media that includes a plurality of NAND devices located on the substrate and organized into two or more physical clusters with each NAND device uniquely assigned to one of the two o...