ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,648, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Write completion pacing for unbalanced command length" was invented by Elkana Richter (Tene, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. When a command is received by the controller from a host device, the controller determines whether the command size is greater than a threshold size. If the command is not greater than the threshold size, the command is sent to a first queue, otherwise, the comman...