Storart Technology Assigned Patent

Storart Technology Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,990,520) developed by Li, Bing-En, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Lee, Hou-Yun, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, and Wei, Sei-Fer, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “method for gabage collecting for non-volatile memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for garbage collecting for non-volatile memories are disclosed. The method includes steps: a) providing a SSD, connected to a host, containing a plurality of TLC blocks and SLC blocks; b) reading 3M TLC pages in a TLC block having data; c) moving valid data in the TLC blocks to at least one clean TLC block; d) sending a host program command of 1 page to the host; e) repeating step b) to step d) until valid data in 8 TLC blocks are moved; f) reading 1 SLC page in a SLC block having data; g) moving valid data in the SLC block to the at least one clean TLC block; h) sending a host program command of .alpha. page to the host; and i) repeating step f) to step h) until valid data in the SLC block having data are moved.”

The patent application was filed on December 10, 2018 (Appl. No.16/214,649).