US Patent Issued to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions on July 15 for "Communication of data relocation information by storage device to host to improve system performance" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,696, issued on July 15, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Communication of data relocation information by storage device to host to improve system performance" was invented by Bishwajit Dutta (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sanjeev N. Trika (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a controller comprising an interface comprising circuitry to communicate with a host computing device; and a relocation manager comprising circuitry, the relocation manager to provide, for the host computing device, an identification of a plurality of data blocks to be relocated within a non-...