US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on July 7 for "Storage system and data de-duplication method using in-memory search device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,231, issued on July 7, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Storage system and data de-duplication method using in-memory search device" was invented by Kun-Chi Chiang (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chun Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Lien Su (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Han-Wen Hu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system and method utilize an in-memory search (IMS) memory device to improve data storage efficiency. A data controller generates a feature, such as a hash value, corresponding to user data temporarily stored in a random access memory. This feature is transmitted to...