US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Automated fast path processing" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,369, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Automated fast path processing" was invented by Vijay Sivasankaran (Dublin, Calif.), Dinesh Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Mikhail Palityka (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing commands received from a host computing device by a storage device can require a large amount of processing overhead. This demand for ever greater processing power increases as the size of storage devices increase. Traditional methods have added an increasing number of processors or CPUs to handle these requirements. However, by utilizing a fast path a...