US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Free space management in storage devices having non-uniform-sized memory blocks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,996, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Free space management in storage devices having non-uniform-sized memory blocks" was invented by Disha Gundecha (Punte, India) and Raghavendra Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device maintains uniform write performance for data written to a memory device including varying block sizes. The storage device includes a balancing module to ensure that free blocks exist in a partition on the memory device and to define a garbage collection threshold based on blocks available in the partition. The storage device als...