Nuvoton Technology Assigned Patent

Nuvoton Technology Corporation, Hsin-chu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,025,669) developed by Tabachnik, Boaz, Herzlia B, Israel, Hershman, Ziv, Givat Shmuel, Israel, and Kanter, Yael, Givatayim, Israel, for “maintaining data-set coherency in non-volatile memory across power interruptions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for data storage includes storing data in a set of memory blocks of a non-volatile memory. Each memory block, which holds a respective portion of the data, is classified as valid or invalid depending on whether the memory block holds a most updated version of the portion, and as anchor or non-anchor depending on whether the portion belongs to a coherent snapshot of the data. Upon recovering from a power interruption, the coherent snapshot of the data is reconstructed from the memory blocks, based on classification of the memory blocks as valid or invalid and as anchor or non-anchor.”

The patent application was filed on December 21, 2015 (14/975,882).