Longitude Enterprise Flash Assigned Patent

Longitude Enterprise Flash S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, Luxembourg, has been assigned a patent (10,146,700) developed by Flynn, David, Sandy, UT, Lagerstedt, Bert, Pleasant Grove, UT, Strasser, John, Syracuse, UT, Thatcher, Jonathan, Liberty Lake, WA, Walker, John, Riverton, UT, and Zappe, Michael, Arvada, CO, for “systems and methods for storage space recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One apparatus includes a storage division selection module configured to select a storage division of a solid-state storage medium for recovery. The solid-state storage medium includes a plurality of storage divisions. Each storage division includes a plurality of storage locations. The apparatus also includes an erase module configured to erase the selected storage division. The apparatus includes a storage division recovery module configured to store a sequence indicator in the erased storage division. The sequence indicator is indicative of an ordered sequence of the plurality of storage divisions, and the sequence indicator is determined by reading information stored with data on the plurality of storage divisions.”

The patent application was filed on September 15, 2016 (15/266,486).