ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,877, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Write protect HW acceleration" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of the firmware (FW) monitoring for both an overlap read command a write protected (WP) overlapped write command, the FW can monitor the overlap table only. The controller will receive a read command or an overlap read command. If the command is not an overlap read command, then the controller will process the command normally. If the command is an overlap read command, then the controller will look fo...