US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Read access management of host performance booster (HPB) regions by a storage device" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,601, issued on May 27, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read access management of host performance booster (HPB) regions by a storage device" was invented by Laxmi Bhoopali (Bangalore, India), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Savita Neelannavar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may be coupled to a host device and the storage device may support a host performance booster (HPB) feature. A controller on the storage device may execute a background relocation operation. During the background relocation operation, the controller may identify a block to relocate data from...