US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Write stream separation for storage controllers" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,098, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Write stream separation for storage controllers" was invented by Roman Alexander Pletka (Uster, Switzerland), Nikolaos Papandreou (Thalwil, Switzerland), Radu Ioan Stoica (Zurich) and Charalampos Pozidis (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one approach is for organizing blocks in a non-volatile storage controller. The method includes: forming a write stripe using a single block from channels of the non-volatile storage. First and second logical erase units are also formed by grouping the blocks from th...