ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,100, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device and method for managing memory maintenance operations" was invented by Savita H Neelannavar (Bangalore, India) and Kishore Kumar Konapala (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device can perform memory maintenance operations to maintain a healthy state of its memory. It is sometimes required to perform memory maintenance operations as foreground operations, but performing such operations in the foreground may exceed a time constraint established to guarantee a certain performance level. In one embodiment...