Storart Technology Assigned Patent

Storart Technology Co. Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,690,489) developed by Yen, Chih-Nan, Lin, Chien-Cheng, and Yeh, Szu-I, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for a “method for improving access performance of a non-volatile storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for improving access performance of a non-volatile storage device when programming data of a size smaller than a fixed minimum program number, (FMPN) is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: predetermining a size of a blank data section for combining with a first data section and a second data section, the total size of the first data section, the second data section and the blank data section equals the FMPN, reading out data located at the second data section, updating a new data to the first data section, combining the new data with the data at the second data section, and incorporating the combined data with the blank data of the blank data section to become a final data, and programming the final data.“

The patent application was filed on March 8, 2014 (14/201,856).