ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,289, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"QoS optimization by using data tracking module" was invented by Michael Ionin (Rehovot, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. When data received by the controller, from a host device or from a non-volatile memory of the data storage device, the controller maintains table tracking the location of the data. The table may include a current location of the data in a volatile memory of the...