ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,169, issued on May 27, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method and system for handling host commands overlapping with deferred unmap address ranges in storage devices" was invented by Naga Shankar Vadalamani (Bangalore, India), Nagi Reddy Chodem (Bangalore, India) and Ramdas Jayant Singathiya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device processes deferred unmap operations while maintaining instructions in a write command. A controller in a storage device receives an unmap command a write command from a host, determines that a logical page in the write command overlaps with a range in ...