ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,133, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Deterministic resizing of unmap commands" was invented by Venkatesh Naidu Pamoti (Bangalore, India), Sowjanya Sunkavelli (Bengaluru, India), Dheemahi Turaga (Bengaluru, India) and Raju Singh (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes an unmap command analysis system that dynamically determines a size, or a LBA range, of an unmap command executed on the data storage device. The size of the unmap command is based, at least in part, on an amount of random data stored by the data storage device. The unmap command ana...