ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,455, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for defining caching layers based on cache attributes" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for defining caching layers based on cache attributes. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a non-volatile memory, a plurality of caches, and one or more processors. The one or more processors, individually or in combination, are configured to: receive a command from a host ...