NXGN Data Assigned Patent

NXGN Data, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,448,745) developed by Alcantara, Joao, Irvine, CA, and Alves, Vladimir, Tustin, CA, for a “configurable read-modify-write engine and method for operating the same in a solid state drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of writing host data to a storage device including a central processing unit, (CPU), a self-organized fast release buffer, (FRB), and a non-volatile memory, the storage device being in communication with a host, the method including receiving a command from the CPU to write the host data to a location in the non-volatile memory, the host data being associated with a first plurality of codewords, (CWs), allocating space in a buffer memory of the FRB for storage of the first CWs, storing the first CWs into the allocated space in the buffer memory, extracting data from the stored first CWs, organizing the extracted data and the host data into a second plurality of CWs, transferring a second CWs to a physical addresses in the non-volatile memory, and sending the plurality of physical addresses to the CPU to update a logical-to-physical table.“

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2014 (14/210,185).