US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 11 for "Solid state drives configurable to use storage spaces of remote devices in activities involving proof of space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,972, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Solid state drives configurable to use storage spaces of remote devices in activities involving proof of space" was invented by Joseph Harold Steinmetz (Loomis, Calif.) and Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus with a solid state drive (SSD) having firmware to farm proof of space plots stored outside of the SSD. The SSD has a communication interface configured to receive at least read commands and write commands from an external host system. The SSD has memory cells formed on at least one integrated circuit die, and a pro...