NxGn Data Assigned Patent

NxGn Data, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,354,822) developed by Alcantara, Joao, Irvine, CA, and Alves, Vladimir, Tustin, CA, for a “apparatus, system, and method for non-volatile data storage and retrieval.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of reading host data from a storage device including a 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, by the FRB, a command to read host data stored in the non-volatile memory from the CPU, the host data being stored in the non-volatile memory as one or more codewords, CWs, allocating space, by the FRB, in a buffer memory of the FRB for storage of the one or more CWs, storing, by the FRB, the one or more CWs into the allocated space in the buffer memory, extracting, by the FRB, the host data from the stored one or more CWs, and transferring, by the FRB, the host data to the host.“

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2014 (14/210,122).