ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,027, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimizing usage of multiple write paths on multi-tenant storage devices" was invented by Michael Ionin (Rehovot, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of ignoring workflow or priority of tenant, modify the write path according to the tenant behavior and system priority using the multi-tenant storage device. When writing information, the write path usually includes RAM memory where the host or device copies the data. The data is copied to the NVM storage element. Th...