US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 17 for "Identification and retrieval of recently-used files at an external storage device" (Singaporean, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,177, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Identification and retrieval of recently-used files at an external storage device" was invented by Rohith Radhakrishnan (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia) and Alvin Gomez (Sengkang, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are disclosed wherein a data storage device (DSD) generates ranking information corresponding to user data stored at a non-volatile memory of the DSD. The ranking information can be used by the DSD to form a frequently used files list, which can be read by a host system upon initialization with the host system and dis...