Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation Assigned Patent

Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11768532) developed by Joo, Yongsoo, Seoul, Korea, for “tracking apparatus and method of I/O latency for storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An I/O latency tracking apparatus for storage devices includes: an I/O command generator generating an I/O command for a storage device, an I/O processor providing an I/O request to the storage device based on the I/O command and completing the I/O command by polling the storage device to check I/O completion after sleeping for a sleep time, and a sleep time adjustment unit adjusting the sleep time based on a sequence combination composed of two latest I/O sleep results among oversleep and undersleep results obtained during the polling process.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-10-17 (17/967385).