Amzetta Technologies Assigned Patent
Using TRIM command with SSDs
By Francis Pelletier | May 16, 2024 at 2:00 pmAmzetta Technologies, LLC, Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (11947799) developed by Chatterjee, Paresh, Fremont, CA, Enoch, Sharon Samuel, Dacula, GA, Mallavaram, Venugopalreddy, and Ramasamy, Senthilkumar, Duluth, GA, for “systems and methods for using the trim command with solid state devices.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Described herein are systems and methods for performing TRIM commands in a data storage system. An example data storage system can include physical storage including a solid state drive (SSD), and a storage system computer operably coupled to the physical storage. The storage system computer can include a processing unit and a memory operably coupled to the processing unit. The data storage system can further include a distributed volume management (DVM) module stored in the memory that, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to: allocate a logical volume from the physical storage, subdivide the logical volume into a plurality of logical blocks, maintain a mapping table for tracking the logical blocks of the logical volume, and in response to a predetermined event, execute a TRIM command for one or more unused data blocks of the SSD.”
The patent application was filed on 2022-07-20 (17/869307).











