PMC-Sierra Assigned Patent

PMC-Sierra, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,996,957) developed by Northcott, Philip L., Coquitlam, CA, for “systems and methods for initializing regions of a flash drive having diverse error correction coding, (ECC) schemes.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Apparatus and methods provide relatively low uncorrectable bit error rates, low write amplification, long life, fast and efficient retrieval, and efficient storage density such that a SSD can be implemented using relatively inexpensive MLC flash for an enterprise storage application.“

The patent application was filed on May 22, 2012 (13/477,633).