Innogrit Technologies Assigned Patent

Innogrit Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, has been assigned a patent (11837298) developed by Zhao, Gang, Chandler, AZ, Chen, Lin, Cupertino, CA, Chen, Jie, Milpitas, CA, and Zhao, Qun, Pleasanton, CA, for “robustness-aware NAND flash management.“

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 2022-09-06 (17/903390).