US Patent Issued to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions on July 22 for "On-SSD-copy techniques using copy-on-write" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,986, issued on July 22, was assigned to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"On-SSD-copy techniques using copy-on-write" was invented by Peng Li (Beaverton, Ore.), Sanjeev N. Trika (Portland, Ore.) and David C. Estrada (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On-SSD-copy using Copy-On-Write (COW) techniques track indirection updates to the copied data without duplicating the data. In one example, a method involves receiving a copy command to copy data from a source LBA to a destination LBA. An entry in a logical-to-physical (L2P) table corresponding to the destination LBA is updated to refer to the s...