US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Stream data management in storage device using defragmentation" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,569, issued on May 27, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Stream data management in storage device using defragmentation" was invented by Leeladhar Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Dhanunjaya Rao Gorrle (Fremont, Calif.) and Iva Majeticova (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a storage device receives a stream of data from a host system. The stream of data corresponds to logical block addresses. The controller writes the stream of data to data block(s) in a device memory, each data block including respective super word line(s), each super word line including respective word line(s), an...