US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Dec. 16 for "Storage device that secures a block for a stream or namespace and system having the storage device" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,867, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage device that secures a block for a stream or namespace and system having the storage device" was invented by Daisuke Hashimoto (Cupertino, Calif.) and Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write...