US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Data recovery for zoned namespace devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,455, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data recovery for zoned namespace devices" was invented by Vijay Sivasankaran (Dublin, Calif.) and Oleg Kragel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Zone Write Groups (ZWGs) to assist data storage devices and host devices with data recovery. In one embodiment, a data storage device includes a memory storing a Zoned NameSpace (ZNS). The ZNS includes a ZWG including host zones and parity zones. An interface connects the data storage device with a host device. The data storage device includes a data storage device controller including an el...