ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,531, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Partial block performance management" was invented by Abhaykumar Kataria (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein provides a method including receiving a plurality of host write requests at a plurality of host logical block addresses (HLBAs), determining spatial adjacency of the plurality of host LBA write requests on a media of a storage device, and in response to determining that the spatial adjacency of the plurality of host LBAs (HLBAs) write requests meets a spatial adjacency condition reading data from a plu...