Memblaze Technology Assigned Patent

Beijing Memblaze Technology, Inc., Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (11,416,162) developed by Wang, Jinyi,and Lu, Xiangfeng, Beijing, China, for “garbage collection method and storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present application relates to a garbage collection method and a storage device for reducing write amplification. A method for selecting a data block to be collected in garbage collection, including: obtaining, according to a first selection policy, a first data block to be collected, determining, according to a first rejection policy, whether to refuse to collect the first data block to be collected, and if according to the first rejection policy, rejection to collect of the first data block to be collected is determined, not performing garbage collection on the first data block to be collected.”

The patent application was filed on June 27, 2018 (17/044,402).