Marvell International Assigned Patent

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM, has been assigned a patent (10,126,987) developed by Jin, Chao, Xi, WeiYa, Pantelis, Alexopoulos, Lim, Chun Teck, and Ching, Zhi Yong, Singapore, Singapore, for “storage devices and methods for controlling a storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “According to various embodiments, a storage device may be provided. The storage device may include: a first memory including a magnetic recording medium and configured to store user data, a second memory including a solid state drive recording medium and configured to store at least one of metadata or other frequently accessed data, and an interface configured to access the second memory using a pre-determined communication protocol.”

The patent application was filed on October 18, 2013 (14/058,156).