US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Hybrid address translation cache using DRAM" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,244, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Hybrid address translation cache using DRAM" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel) and Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Splitting an address translation cache (ATC) into two portions can reduce costs and maintain efficient retrieval of data. One portion can be disposed in a first location while a second portion can be disposed in a second location distinct from the first location. The first location can be in the controller. The second loc...