Liqid Assigned Patent

Liqid Inc., Broomfield, CO, has been assigned a patent (10,114,784) developed by Breakstone, Jason, Broomfield, CO, Long, and Christopher, Colorado Springs, CO, for a “statistical power handling in a scalable storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage assembly is provided that includes a plurality of storage drives each comprising a PCIe host interface and solid state storage media. The data storage assembly includes a PCIe switch circuit coupled to the PCIe host interfaces of the storage drives and configured to receive storage operations issued by one or more host systems over a shared PCIe interface and transfer the storage operations for delivery to the storage drives over selected ones of the PCIe host interfaces. The data storage assembly includes a control processor configured to monitor usage statistics of the storage drives, and power control circuitry configured to selectively remove the power from ones of the storage drives based at least on the usage statistics of the storage drives.”

The patent application was filed on April 23, 2015 (14/694,732).