US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 15 for "Selectable performance-based partitioning" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,334, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Selectable performance-based partitioning" was invented by Nitin Jain (Bangalore, India), Ronak Jain (Mysuru, India), Matthew Klapman (San Jose, Calif.), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Taninder Singh Sijher (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes storage media and control circuitry and is configured to enable the creation of partitions with different performance levels. The storage media includes a first set and a second set of memory blocks having different performance levels. The control circuitr...