… And Stec Assigned Patent

STEC, Inc., Santa Ana, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,144,515) developed by Mark Moshayedi, Newport Coast, CA, for an "interleaved flash storage system and method."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A flash storage system accesses data interleaved among flash storage devices. The flash storage system receives a data block including data portions, stores the data portions in a data buffer, and initiates data transfers for asynchronously writing the data portions into storage blocks interleaved among the flash storage devices. Additionally, the flash storage system may asynchronously read data portions of a data block interleaved among the storage blocks, store the data portions in the data buffer, and access the data portions from the data buffer."

The patent application was filed on July 23, 2009 (12/508,538).