ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,043, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Selectable performance boost for storage devices" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Taninder Singh Sijher (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device is configured to boost either capacity or performance using a set of reserve memory blocks. The data storage device includes a storage media and control circuitry. The storage media includes first set of memory blocks at a first capacity level and a first performance level and a reserve set of memory blocks. The control circuitry is configured to, i...