US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Method of increasing flash endurance by improved metadata management" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,612, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method of increasing flash endurance by improved metadata management" was invented by Srikanth Tumkur Shivanand (Karnataka, India), Paul Justin Koilraj Jayakumar (Karnataka, India) and Sharath Kumar Kodase (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes updating a first metadata log in an NVRAM of a host device corresponding to one or more recent input/output (I/O) operations received by the host device, periodically checking whether the size of the updated first metadata log is greater than a flush limit maintained in the host de...