Smart Storage Assigned Patent

Smart Storage Systems, Inc., Chandler, AZ, has been assigned a patent (8,949,689) developed by Ellis, Robert W., Phoenix, AZ, for a “storage control system with data management mechanism and method of operation thereof.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of operation of a storage control system includes: generating encoded data having a proportional data distribution for writing to a memory device, identifying a marginal block when an erase block is read from the memory device, and generating a marginal tag for the marginal block, the marginal tag having a non-proportional data distribution different from the proportional data distribution.“

The patent application was filed on June 11, 2012 (13/493,949).