Proton World International Assigned Patent

Proton World International N.V., Diegem, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (10,162,540) developed by Dawirs, Michel, Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium, Modave, Jean-Louis, Ottignies, Belgium, Peeters, Michael, Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium, and Docquier, Guillaume, Liege, Belgium, for a “storage in flash memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A flash memory is divided into pages defining an erase granularity of the flash memory. A count value is written into page metadata. Each page is divided into frames. Each frame contains at least one data block and at least two frame metadata words including a first frame metadata word to store a block identifier. A current page is opened by incrementing the count value and writing the incremented count value into the at least one first page metadata word. The current page has its at least one first page metadata word containing a highest count value of the counter of the number of written pages. A logic data block is written into a selected frame and a block identifier of the logic data block is written into the first frame metadata word of the selected frame.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2016 (15/380,509).