ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,149, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"SSD optimization awareness to atomicity of different system files" was invented by Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of a system with no awareness to the specific properties of the described system files, such as atomicity of different types of system files, utilize the special characteristics of the corresponding system files to optimize storage handling. A host marks a certain logical block address (LBA) ra...