Avalanche Assigned Patent

Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,311,232) developed by Asnaashari, Mehdi, Danville, CA, and Nemazie, Siamack, Los Altos Hills, CA, for a “management of memory array with magnetic random access memory, MRAM.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An embodiment of the invention includes a mass storage device with a storage media that includes magnetic random access memory, (MRAM) devices with a NAND flash interface and NAND flash memory devices that are coupled to the MRAM devices. The storage media is partitioned into a hybrid reserved area made of a combination of MRAM array NAND array and hybrid user area made of a combination of MRAM array and NAND array and further includes a controller with a host interface and flash interface coupled to the MRAM and NAND flash memory devices through a flash interface.“

The patent application was filed on December 17, 2013 (14/109,914).