US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Management of metadata in a solid-state drive via write heat segregation" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,919, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Management of metadata in a solid-state drive via write heat segregation" was invented by Radu Ioan Stoica (Zurich), Dan Lazar (Houston), Timothy J. Fisher (Cypress, Texas), Nikolaos Papandreou (Thalwil, Switzerland), Roman Alexander Pletka (Uster, Switzerland), Charalampos Pozidis (Thalwil, Switzerland), Aaron Daniel Fry (Richmond, Texas) and Andrew D. Walls (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of the solid-state drive (SSD) maintains a logical-to-physical translation layer, wherein metadata for the logical-to-physic...