ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,119, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device and method for multiple meta die balancing" was invented by Sharath Shivakumar (Bangalore, India) and Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host can write data to and/or read data from a memory in a data storage device. In addition to writing host data in the memory, the data storage device can perform internal data movement/relocation (e.g. for wear leveling). The data storage device and method provided herein can balance host writes and relocation operations in multiple meta die systems by reducing the ...