US Patent Issued to EVERPURE on July 14 for "Utilizing flash memory of storage devices experiencing power loss protection failures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,949, issued on July 14, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Utilizing flash memory of storage devices experiencing power loss protection failures" was invented by Linlin Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.), Millen Katyal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zoltan Dewitt (Daly City, Calif.), Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indication that a die of the solid-state storage device has been marked as likely to fail based on a number of failed input/output (I/O) operations performed on the die satisfying a threshold may be received by a storage system controller from a ...