Distech Controls Assigned Patent

Distech Controls Inc., Brossard, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,593,409) developed by Gervais, Francois, Lachine, CA, and Breton, Danny, Saint-Jean sur Richelieu, CA, for a “memory device comprising flash memory and method for controlling a write speed of a bus transmitting data for storage on the flash memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Memory device comprising flash memory and method for controlling a write speed of a bus transmitting data for storage on the flash memory. The flash memory of the memory device comprises a plurality of physical blocks for writing data transmitted over the bus from a host device to the memory device. The writing of data in any one of the plurality of physical blocks is preceded by an erase of the physical block. The memory device also comprises a memory device controller controlling a write speed of the bus. The write speed of the bus defines a transmission rate at which data are transmitted over the bus from the host device to the memory device, for further writing on the flash memory. The control of the write speed of the bus comprises adapting the transmission rate based on a number of physical blocs erased.”

The patent application was filed on October 12, 2017 (15/782,338).