US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Data storage device with key-value delete management for multi-host namespaces" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,853, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with key-value delete management for multi-host namespaces" was invented by Pavan Gururaj (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Babu (Bangalore, India) and Sridhar Sabesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and data storage devices for management of key-value delete operations for namespaces supporting multiple hosts are described. Responsive to a delete command, the key for the deleted key-value pair may be moved to a deleted data structure having a delete order. During garbage collection erase blocks...