US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 6 for "Storage device pool management based on storage device queue usage" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,110, issued on May 6, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Storage device pool management based on storage device queue usage" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to improved techniques for managing a data storage device (DSD) pool, and in particular the selecting of DSDs based on commands distribution and latencies among the command queues in the DSDs. In some aspects, a DSD may have multiple queues that enable the DSD to perform certain commands (e.g., write commands and/or read com...