ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,434, issued on April 22, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for managing input-output operations in zone translation layer architecture and devices thereof" was invented by Abhijeet Prakash Gole (Cupertino, Calif.), Rohit Shankar Singh (Cary, N.C.), Douglas P. Doucette (San Diego), Ratnesh Gupta (Dublin, Calif.), Sourav Sen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Prathamesh Deshpande (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to determining physical zone data within a zoned namespace solid state drive (SSD), associated with logical zone data included in a first received input-output operation...