US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 18 for "Optimizing data placement based on data temperature and lifetime prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,842, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing data placement based on data temperature and lifetime prediction" was invented by Francisco Maturana Sanguineti (Mountain View, Calif.), Lluis Pamies-Juarez (Mountain View, Calif.), Mustafa Uysal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Arif Abdulhusein Merchant (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing data storage includes obtaining a data object for storage at memory hardware in communication with data processing hardware. The memory hardware includes a plurality of storage devices, each storage device of the plurality of sto...