US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 22 for "Data storage device and method for time-pooled hot data relocation" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,663, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for time-pooled hot data relocation" was invented by Bharath Radhakrishnan (Georgetown, Malaysia) and Daniel J. Linnen (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Post-write data management operations, such as refresh read, data scrub, and data relocation, are typically performed after a certain period of time has elapsed. However, performing such operations based on probability of access can provide advantages. So, in one example, a post-write data management operation is performed more frequently on relatively-...