US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Techniques for balancing write commands on solid state storage devices (SSDs)" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,150, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for balancing write commands on solid state storage devices (SSDs)" was invented by Matthew J. Byom (San Jose, Calif.), Tudor Antoniu (Woodland, Calif.), Alexander Paley (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew W. Vogan (Austin, Texas) and Muhammad N. Ashraf (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, a method may include caching a plurality of write commands into a write cache, and, in response to determining that an available capacit...