ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,890, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Zone-based garbage collection in ZNS SSDs" was invented by Aakar Deora (Karnataka, India), Navin Kochar (Karnataka, India), Sampath Kumar Raja Murthy (Karnataka, India) and Gursimran Kashyap (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided including zone-based GC in a ZNS. The storage device includes a NVM and a controller. The NVM includes first blocks, second blocks, and third blocks. The controller creates a first superblock including the first blocks, a second superblock including the second blocks, and a th...