US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Aug. 4 for "Method and apparatus for erasing a memory device" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,508, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for erasing a memory device" was invented by Rod Brittner (San Jose, Calif.) and Travis Roger Oenning (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a read request while non-volatile memory is performing an erase operation, a solid state drive (SSD) device controller suspends the erase operation to permit the non-volatile memory to execute a read operation corresponding to the read request. The SSD device controller determines a time delay for suspending the erase operation based on a metric that indicates a degree...