US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 27 for "ZNS protection with small SLC cache using zone groups" (British, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,132, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"ZNS protection with small SLC cache using zone groups" was invented by Karin Inbar (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Stephen Gold (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Liam Parker (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to achieving an acceptable uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER) using a dual temporary data protecting approach and a small SLC cache by adding a temporary XOR protection to zone-groups rather than storing another copy of the zone within the drive. The parity data can be stored with the user data ...