Buffalo Memory Assigned Patent
SSD device
By Francis Pelletier | July 8, 2015 at 3:03 pmBuffalo Memory Co., Ltd., Aichi, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,063,845) developed by Makuni, Kazuki, Okinaga, Takayuki, Azuma, Shuichiro, Takata, Yosuke, and Sugahara, Noriaki, Aichi, Japan, for a “solid-state drive device.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A solid state drive (SSD) device using a flash memory and including a non-volatile memory that differs in type from the flash memory. The SSD device receives data to be written to the flash memory, stores the received data in the non-volatile memory, stores the data stored in the non-volatile memory to the flash memory, and stores, in the non-volatile memory, flow data indicating a flow of tasks to be undertaken while storing the received data in the non-volatile memory and storing the data stored in the non-volatile memory to the flash memory.“
The patent application was filed on August 9, 2013 (13/963,501).