US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Disk caching and/or tiering with device internal busy information" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,945, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Disk caching and/or tiering with device internal busy information" was invented by Sanjeev Trika (Portland, Ore.) and Piotr Wysocki (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects, via a processor external to a solid state drive (SSD), internal information associated with the SSD, detects background operations with respect to the SSD based on the internal information, wherein the background operations include one or more of current operations or predicted operations, and adjusts a hiera...