US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Pausing garbage collection during a sequential unmapping process" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,044, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Pausing garbage collection during a sequential unmapping process" was invented by Dheemahi Turaga (Bangalore, India), Sharada Banappa (Bangalore, India) and Santoshi Sravya Remella (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a command analysis system that analyzes one or more received commands to determine whether a garbage collection process associated with the one or more received commands should be executed or paused. The command analysis system determines the garbage collection process should be paused when o...