US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Dec. 23 for "Selectable write paths with power loss protection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,878, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selectable write paths with power loss protection" was invented by Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Boris Zemlyak (Saratoga, Calif.), Benjamin Scholbrock (San Jose, Calif.) and Zoltan DeWitt (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indication that power loss protection (PLP) for a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) portion of a storage device has failed is received from the storage device. The storage device is marked to indicate the storage device has a PLP failure. A write path to store data at the storage device is modified t...