US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 25 for "Dynamically determining a memory block threshold for initiating a garbage collection process" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,085, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dynamically determining a memory block threshold for initiating a garbage collection process" was invented by Anamika Choudhary (Bangalore, India) and Disha Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A write pattern of a host device is used to dynamically determine when to initiate a garbage collection process on a data storage device. The write pattern of the host device is based on a number of I/O commands received from the host device and on a number of available memory blocks in the data storage device. If the write pattern of th...