ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,692, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Dynamic mode selection for hybrid single-level cell and multi-level cell data storage devices" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Abhinandan Venugopal (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and data storage devices for dynamic mode selection for hybrid MLC/SLC data storage devices are described. Storage operations at a plurality of storage devices from a host device may be processed, wherein each storage device of the plurality of storage devices comprises a plurality of partitions including multi-level cell b...