Round Rock Research Assigned Patent

Round Rock Research, LLC, Parsippany, NJ, has been assigned a patent (9,390,004) developed by Radke, William, Los Gatos, CA, Murray, Michael, Mountain View, CA, Furuhjelm, Martin Ragnar, Grass Valley, CA, and Geldman, John, Los Gatos, CA, for a “hybrid memory management.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and apparatus for managing data storage in hybrid memory devices utilizing single level and multi-level memory cells. Logical addresses can be distributed between single level and multilevel memory cells based on a frequency of write operations performed. Initial storage of data corresponding to a logical address in memory can be determined by various methods including initially writing all data to single level memory or initially writing all data to multilevel memory. Other methods permit a host to direct logical address writes to single level or multilevel memory cells based on anticipated usage.“

The patent application was filed on May 30, 2014 (14/291,644).