US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus to improve performance of a redundant array of independent disks that includes zoned namespaces drives" (Polish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,146, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to improve performance of a redundant array of independent disks that includes zoned namespaces drives" was invented by Kapil Karkra (Chandler, Ariz.), Slawomir Ptak (Gdansk, Poland) and Mariusz Barczak (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High performance parity-based Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) on Zoned Namespaces Solid State Drives (SSD)s with support for high queue depth write Input Output (IO) and Zone Append command is provided in a host system. The host system includes a stripe mapping table to store map...