Smart Modular Technologies Assigned Patent

Smart Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,474,362) developed by Tsai, Victor Y., Palo Alto, CA, and Fillion, Robert, Haverhill, MA, for a “flash-based block storage system with trimmed space management and method of operation thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for a method of operation of a Flash-based block storage system including: transferring a first data to a logical block address, storing the first data in a physical block, of a storage array, associated with the logical block address, receiving a trim command for the logical block address, establishing a reserved physical block associated with the logical block address of the trim command, transferring second data for writing to the logical block address of the trim command, releasing the reserved physical block associated with the logical block address, and writing the second data to the logical block address.”

The patent application was filed on October 14, 2016 (15/294,678).