Samsung Electronics and Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University Assigned Patent

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Research and Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon-si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11,237,979) developed by Shin, Dongkun, Seoul, Korea, and Han, Gyuwha, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “method for management of multi-core solid state drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of operating a multi-core solid state drive includes: receiving an initial internal back copy command including a physical copy referencing a source Logical Page Number (LPN) and a destination LPN from a host, delaying processing of the physical copy when the physical copy requires two different flash translation layers (FTLs) and generating a modified batch internal copy command by replacing the source LPN of the physical copy with a Physical Page Number mapped to the source LPN.”

The patent application was filed on April 22, 2020 (16/855,094).