US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on April 8 for "Synchronous write coalescing" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,316, issued on April 8, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Synchronous write coalescing" was invented by Arun Prakash Jana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a firmware unit and a cache module that includes a cache controller and a cache memory. The cache controller receives an I/O message that includes a local message ID (LMID) and data to be written to a logical drive (LD), stores the data in a cache segment (CS) row of the cache memory and sends an ID of the CS row to the firmware unit. The firmware unit, in response to receiving the ID of the CS ro...