Smart Storage Systems Assigned Patent

Smart Storage Systems, Inc., Chandler, AZ, has been assigned a patent (8,566,505) developed by Kevin L. Kilzer, Chandler, AZ, Robert W. Ellis, Phoenix, AZ, and Rudolph J. Sterbenz, Chandler, AZ, for a “flash management using sequential techniques.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed are techniques for flash memory management, including receiving data from a host, writing the data to a flash memory device in the order it was received from the host, and providing at least one data structure configured to locate the data written to the flash memory device.”

The patent application was filed on April 15, 2008 (12/103,273).