Google Assigned Patent

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,250,271) developed by Andrew T. Swing, Los Gatos, CA, Albert T. Borchers, Santa Cruz, CA, and Grant Grundler, Mountain View, CA, for a "command and interrupt grouping for a data storage device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage device may include multiple memory chips and a controller that is operably coupled to the memory chips and that is arranged and configured to receive a group of commands from a host, where each of the commands in the group includes a same group number to identify the commands as part of the group, process the group of the commands using the memory chips and generate and send a single interrupt to the host when the group of the commands completes processing."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 7, 2009 (12/537,727).