Innogrit Technologies Assigned Patent

Innogrit Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, has been assigned a patent (11488678) developed by Zhao, Gang, Chandler, AZ, Chen, Lin, Cupertino, CA, Chen, Jie, Milpitas, CA, and Zhao, Qun, Pleasanton, CA, for “grouping flash storage blocks based on robustness for cache program operations and regular program operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for performing program operations in a non-volatile storage system. In one embodiment, there is provided a method that may comprise categorizing active storage blocks of a non-volatile storage device into a robust group and a less-robust group based on a number of factors including page error count, program time and number of Program/Erase (P/E) cycles, determining that a cache program operation needs to be performed, selecting a first storage block from the robust group to perform the cache program operation, determining that a regular program operation needs to be performed, and selecting a second storage block from the less-robust group to perform the regular program operation.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-01-13 (17/147539).