ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,149, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using less durable storage to service system operations" was invented by Ronald Karr (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Davis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Riley Thomasson (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first set of blocks of storage memory is allocated as durable and a second set of blocks of the storage memory is allocated as semi-durable. The durable first set of blocks are provided power loss protection (PLP) and the semi-durable second set of blocks lack PLP. Data generated by one or more background...