ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,777, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Garbage collection-automatic data placement" was invented by Rajinikanth Pandurangan (Fremont, Calif.) and Changho Choi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may include flash memory to store data. An SSD controller may manage reading and writing data to the flash memory. The SSD may include an automatic stream detection logic to select a stream identifier responsive to attributes of data. A garbage collection logic may select an erase block and program valid data in the erase block into a se...