US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Data storage device and method for host-assisted deferred defragmentation and system handling" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,650, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for host-assisted deferred defragmentation and system handling" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Ramkumar Ramamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Bhavya Krishna (Ernakulam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method for host-assisted deferred defragmentation and system handling are provided. In one embodiment, the data storage device comprises a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, from a host, a plurality of write commands and a grouping identifi...