NovaChips Assigned Patent

NovaChips Canada Inc., Ottawa, ONT, Canada, has been assigned a patent (9,128,662) developed by Kim, Jin-Ki, Ottawa, Canada, and Yi, Dae-Hee, Seoul, Korea, for a “solid state drive memory system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A solid-state drive architecture and arrangement for standardized disk drive form factors, PCI type memory cards and general motherboard memory. The solid-state drive architecture is modular in that a main printed circuit board, (PCB) of the memory system includes a host interface connector, a memory controller, and connectors. Each connector can removably receive a memory blade, where each memory blade includes a plurality of memory devices serially connected to each other via a serial interface. Each memory blade includes a physical serial interface for providing data and control signals to a first memory device in the serial chain and for receiving data and control signals from a last memory device in the serial chain. Each memory blade can be sized in length and width to accommodate any number of memory devices on either side thereof.“

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2012 (13/720,951).