US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 11 for "Data storage device and method for reducing flush latency" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,706, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for reducing flush latency" was invented by Rotem Sela (Haifa, Israel), Meytal Soffer (Maale' Hagalil, Israel) and Asher Druck (Balfor, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device has a cache and a non-volatile memory. Instead of flushing the entire cache to the non-volatile memory in response to a command from a host, the data storage device flushes only the cached data that is associated with an identifier provided by the host. This allows the cached data associated with the identifier to be flushe...