US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 17 for "Solid state drive with concurrent read execution and erase execution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,867, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Solid state drive with concurrent read execution and erase execution" was invented by Pitamber Shukla (San Jose, Calif.), Nian Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Achyut Chandulal Gedia (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Dipali Khamkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state drive capable of executing a read operation concurrent with executing an erase operation, and a method of executing a read operation concurrent with executing an erase operation in a solid-state drive. A first portion of stored data that has been predicted (based o...