ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,534, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Avoiding garbage collection in media storage devices" was invented by Muralitharan Jayaraman (San Jose, Calif.), Rampraveen Somasundaram (San Jose, Calif.), Sundar Panneer Selvam (San Jose, Calif.), Durga Praveen Maddineni (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel J. Linnen (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rather than storing multiple video files in a jumbo block (JB), the video file is stored in one or more complete JBs while the remaining data of the video file that does not fill a complete JB is stored in a tail block (TB). Generally, data s...