Storart Assigned Patent

StorArt Technology Co. Ltd., (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (10,283,209) developed by Lin, Chun Hsien, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for “method for detecting problem cells of SATA SSD and SATA SSD having self-detecting function looking for problem cells.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for detecting problem cells of a SATA SSD and a SATA SSD having self-detecting function looking for problem cells are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a detecting program used to detect aged and died cells in a SATA SSD, writing the detecting program to a MCU, (Micro Control Unit) in the SATA SSD, pulling high electric potential of a communicating pin of a SATA connector of the SATA SSD to initiate the detecting program, collecting location data of aged and died cells in the SATA SSD by the detecting program, and storing the location data in a storage area in the SSD. The present invention utilizes the DAS/DSS pin as a channel to initiate detecting program. It has advantages of using current interface of SSD, no effort on taking apart hardware and automatically running the detecting program without human control.”

The patent application was filed on September 8, 2015 (14/847,197).