OCZ Assigned Patent

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,488,377) developed by Franz Michael Schuette, Colorado Springs, CO, for a "mass storage device with solid-state memory components capable of increased endurance."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mass storage device that utilizes one or more solid-state memory components to store data for a host system, and a method for increasing the write endurance of the memory components. The memory components are periodically heated above an intrinsic operating temperature thereof to a preselected temperature that is sufficient to thermally recondition the memory component in a manner that increases the write endurance of the memory component."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2010 (12/943,192).