US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 20 for "Data storage device and method for host-based dynamic jump range identification" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,747, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for host-based dynamic jump range identification" was invented by Ankit Gupta (Ghaziabad, India), Prathmesh Tandon (Bangalore, India) and Payal Kriplani (Ajmer, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device can use a jump range to identify whether a new write command received from a host is part of a sequential stream of write commands even though the logical block address of the new write command is not sequential to the logical block addresses of those other commands. However, using a fixed jump range ca...