US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Using special data storage parameters when storing cold stream data in a data storage device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,104, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Using special data storage parameters when storing cold stream data in a data storage device" was invented by Piyush A. Dhotre (San Jose, Calif.), Leeladhar Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Adam Noah Jacobvitz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream classification system of a data storage device monitors an access frequency of data stored by the data storage device. If the data is classified as cold data, the stream classification system rewrites the cold data to a primary storage partition us...