US Patent Issued to INTEL NDTM US on Nov. 11 for "Express status operation for storage devices with independent planes and plane groups" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,484, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTEL NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Express status operation for storage devices with independent planes and plane groups" was invented by Aliasgar S. Madraswala (Folsom, Calif.), Naveen Prabhu Vittal Prabhu (Folsom, Calif.), Vinaya Harish (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sanket Sanjay Wadyalkar (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a storage array with multiple planes organized as plane groups, where the planes of a plane group receive and process commands in parallel. The storage device includes a storage controller that receives a command from a host controlle...