US Patent Issued to Google on April 22 for "Storage design for host controlled logically addressed flexible data layout" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,679, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Storage design for host controlled logically addressed flexible data layout" was invented by Christopher Sabol (Los Altos, Calif.) and Manuel Benitez (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive placement or placement functionality can enable initial copies of data to be placed on a drive in reclaim unit (HRUs) in a manner which is probabilistically more efficient from a garbage collection (GC) perspective and leverages knowledge of a host or application using the data. The placement functionality enables the advantages of fine-grained placement...