ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,438, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device and method for hybrid space balancing based on host read affinity and heuristics" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Sunny Sharan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method for hybrid space balancing based on host read affinity and heuristics are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors, individually or in combination, are configured to: receive information from a host r...