Scaleflux Assigned Patent

Scaleflux, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (12339745) developed by Zhang; Tong, Albany, NY, Vernon; Mark, Li; Jiangpeng, San Jose, CA, Liu; Yang, Milpitas, CA, and Sun; Fei, Irvine, CA, for a “solid-state drive with multimode compression and error correction.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for providing compression and error correction coding (ECC) in a solid-state drive (SSD). A method is provided that includes: determining whether a data item is to be written to flash memory using a general-purpose mode or a zero-padding mode: in response to a determination that a data item is to be written into flash memory using the zero-padding mode: padding the data item with an all-zero tail to form an LBA data block of a predefined size; performing ECC coding on the LBA block to generate an ECC codeword; removing the all-zero tail from the ECC codeword to generate a shortened ECC codeword; and storing the shortened ECC codeword in flash memory.”

The patent application was filed on 2024-04-22 (18/641942).