US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Processing commands in a sequential write required zone model" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,949, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Processing commands in a sequential write required zone model" was invented by Rotem Sela (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amir Segev (Meitar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device implements a Zoned Namespace (ZNS) storage architecture. The data storage device delays the execution of write commands that are received out of sequence instead of rejecting the write commands. The write commands that are received out of sequence are reordered according to a logical block address (LBA) associated with each write command. The data storage ...