Microsemi Storage Solutions Assigned Patent

Microsemi Storage Solutions, U.S, Inc., Aliso Viejo, CA , with appliant PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,384,093) developed by Aiello, Anthony Frank, Santa Clara, CA, for a “RAID enabled NVME device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data protection system having a host, a SSD array comprising at least three non-volatile memory express, (NVMe) drives, each NVMe drive comprising a buffer, and a peripheral component interconnect express, (PCIe) data bus interfacing the host and the NVMe drives. The NVMe drives are implemented with commands for implementing a RAID volume in the SSD array, wherein the commands are operable to perform RAID operations at the NVMe drives using the buffers of the NVMe drives.“

The patent application was filed on May 28, 2014 (14/289,608).