ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,544, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Storage device, data storage method, and storage system" was invented by Ying Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Long Cheng (Ankara, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a control unit, a hot spare area, and a data area. Because a quantity of bits that can be stored in a second-level storage unit corresponding to the hot spare area is less than a quantity of bits that can be stored in a first-level storage unit corresponding to the data area, data read/write performance of the hot spare area is h...