Apacer Assigned Patent

Apacer Technology Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,423,338) developed by Lee, Jiunn-Chang, and Liao, Yin-Chuan, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “method of extending lifetime of solid state disk.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure illustrates a method of extending a lifetime of a solid state disk, (SSD). The SSD includes a flash memory which is a multi-level cell, (MLC) flash memory. The method includes steps of: setting a number of logic blocks of the SSD to be one-half of a number of physical blocks of the flash memory, reading, by a control unit of the SSD, a write/erase times of each of the physical blocks of the flash memory, and converting the physical block, of which a number of the write/erase times exceeds an upper limit of the write/erase times, from a multi-level storage format to a single-level storage format. A number of the logic blocks is a constant value.”

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2017 (15/859,060).