US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Providing endurance to solid state device storage via querying and garbage collection" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,065, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Providing endurance to solid state device storage via querying and garbage collection" was invented by Lior Kamran (Richon LeZion, Israel), Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel) and Steven A. Morley (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique provides endurance to solid state device (SSD) storage. Such a technique involves querying the SSD storage for locations which are about to be refreshed by the SSD storage. Such a technique further involves identifying storage objects that include the locations which are about to be refreshed in response to qu...