ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,113, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
"Host controlled garbage collection in a solid state drive" was invented by Bishwajit Dutta (Hillsboro, Ore.), Anand S. Ramalingam (Portland, Ore.), Sanjeev N. Trika (Portland, Ore.) and Pallav H. Gala (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Read Quality of Service in a solid state drive is improved by allowing a host system communicatively coupled to the solid state drive to control garbage collection in the solid state drive. Through the use of controlled garbage collection, the host system can control when to start and s...