ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,308, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Pre-read assisted write coalescing for parity virtual disks" was invented by Arun Prakash Jana (Bengaluru, India) and Amar Deep Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for providing increased performance of write operations that are candidates for coalesced writes but don't end up writing an entire row of new data. In accordance with some embodiments, a controller can perform a pre-read operation early, in some cases as soon as the write request received from the host is identified as a candidate for write c...