US Patent Issued to SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions on March 25 for "Systems and methods for eliminating garbage collection in solid-state drives (SSDs)" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,093, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for eliminating garbage collection in solid-state drives (SSDs)" was invented by George Kalwitz (Mead, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for eliminating garbage collection in solid-state drives (SSDs) of a data center are disclosed herein. A data placement block (DPB) size is determined. An SSD receives, from a host device, a write command specifying a virtual logical block address (LBA). The SSD identifies a DPB based on the virtual LBA of the write command. The SSD causes data associated wi...