US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 15 for "Logical-to-physical mapping for defragmentation of host file system in a data storage device" (Indian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,951, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Logical-to-physical mapping for defragmentation of host file system in a data storage device" was invented by Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Bala Siva Kumar Narala (Kakinada, India) and Narendhiran Chinnaanangur Ravimohan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device having a flash translation layer configured to handle file-system defragmentation in a manner that substantially avoids physical data movement in a flash memory. In an example embodiment, a memory controller operates t...