US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Reliable flash storage" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,373, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reliable flash storage" was invented by Mehmet Alphan Ulusoy (Framingham, Mass.), Christopher J. Frantz (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Miguel Angel Osorio Lozano (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses for reliable Flash storage, which may enable reliable read, write, and erase operations for Flash storage. In aspects, data may be stored in a Flash memory device through the use of two or more pages. A primary page may be determined from the two or more pages as an appropriate page to perform stora...