ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,583, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Tracking data usage in storage devices" was invented by Anamika Choudhary (Bangalore, India) and Lovish Singla (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage devices include a memory array comprised of a plurality of memory devices. These memory devices typically have a plurality of metadata associated with them in addition to the data stored within. This metadata may include a timestamp indicating when the last host command, such as a read or write command, was processed on each of the memory devices. Using this timestamp metadata, the sto...