Saratoga Speed Assigned Patent

Saratoga Speed, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,286,225) developed by Mehrotra, Sharad, Saratoga, CA, Mills, Jack, San Carlos, CA, Gourley, Thomas, Banks, OR, and Livesey, Jon, San Jose, CA, for a “flash-based storage system including reconfigurable circuitry.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Apparatus and method for accelerating processing operations of flash based storage systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an IC component disposed between I/O circuitry and flash storage devices is configured to optimize fulfillment of data read and write requests originating from a network or device external to the flash based storage system using cache memory before involving the flash storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2013 (13/931,650).