ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,408, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"System and method to manage disk write buffer" was invented by Hiroaki Kohge (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroomi Motohashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory and circuitry. The nonvolatile memory stores data written using shingled magnetic recording, in which tracks are partially arranged one over another in a radial direction. The circuitry is to instruct the nonvolatile memory to write the data in units of sectors, additionally write the data to a data writing area of the nonvolatile memory, crea...