Via Technologies Assigned Patent

Via Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,519,541) developed by Feng, Lei, Beijing, China, for a “data storage device and data checking and correction for volatile memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Data checking and correction for a volatile memory of a data storage device, the data storage device further including a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller operates the non-volatile memory in accordance with requests issued from a host. The controller uses the volatile memory for temporary storage of temporary data required for operations of the non-volatile memory. The controller generates error checking and correction content for the temporary data and writes the temporary data and the error checking and correction content into the volatile memory in at least one burst length for temporary storage of the temporary data. In this manner, it is not necessary to manufacture any additional pin on the volatile memory for data checking and correction.“

The patent application was filed on May 7, 2014 (14/271,813).