US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Data validation checkpoint and flash memory rollback" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,397, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data validation checkpoint and flash memory rollback" was invented by Lee Jason Sanders (Chichester, Great Britain), Roderick Guy Charles Moore (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Florent Christian Rostagni (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Paul Nicholas Cashman (Burnham-on-Sea, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, computer program product, and computer program for managing data in a storage system, the storage system comprising: a set of subsystems comprising: a structure comprising a set of mappings between logical and ma...