Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Assigned Patent

UNIST, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, has been assigned a patent (10,521,156) developed by Noh, Sam H, Kim, Byungsuck, Kim, Jaeho, and Lim, KwangHyun, Ulsan, Korea, for “apparatus and method of managing multi solid state disk system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A management apparatus of a multi-solid state disk, (SSD) system implemented by a computer is provided. The management apparatus of the multi-SSD system may include a first SSD group including a plurality of SSDs arranged in rows or columns and configured to execute a received write command using segments in the plurality of SSDs, a second SSD group including a plurality of SSDs arranged in rows or columns and configured to execute a read command for valid data in the plurality of SSDs, and a manager configured to copy a valid page in the second SSD group while a write command for the first SSD group being executed and to erase all data in the second SSD group when the copying is completed.”

The patent application was filed on January 11, 2018 (15/868,523).