US Patent Issued to Sandisk on July 8 for "Protocol for solid state drive with high quality of service" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,709, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Protocol for solid state drive with high quality of service" was invented by Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is communicatively coupled to a host that defines a quality of service level for responses transmitted from the storage device to the host. The storage device includes a memory device to store data. The storage device also includes a controller to perform background operations to manage resources on the memory device while performing foreground operations according to the quality of service level set by the...