ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,730, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data routing in networked SSDs" was invented by Dattatreya Nayak (Bangalore, India), Narendra Bayanaboina (Bangalore, India) and Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of all the NAND memory having asynchronous independent plane read (AIPR) enabled, a system utilizes a master-SSD to route data to multiple client SSDs via a controller memory buffer (CMB) according to the underlying NAND hardware (HW) of each of the client SSDs. The master-SSD will also analyze the application data retrieval of the logical data th...