US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Firmware-based SSD block failure prediction and avoidance scheme" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,129, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Firmware-based SSD block failure prediction and avoidance scheme" was invented by Nima Elyasi (San Jose, Calif.) and Changho Choi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may comprise flash storage for data, the flash storage organized into a plurality of blocks. A controller may manage reading data from and writing data to the flash storage. Metadata storage may store device-based log data for errors in the SSD. Identification firmware may identify a block responsive to the device-based log dat...