T-Head Semiconductor Assigned Patent

T-Head (Shanghai) Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai Free Trade Area, China, has been assigned a patent (12360702) developed by Xu; Yuming, Heng; Jiu, Chengdu, China, Xue; Fei, Sunnyvale, CA, Wu; Wentao, Shanghai, China, Wang; Jifeng, Chengdu, China, Jin; Jiajing, Hangzhou, China, and Gao; Xiang, Shanghai, China, for “programmable control system and method for solid state drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A solid state drive (SSD) includes an NAND memory and an SSD controller. The SSD controller includes an interface coupled to a host machine, a nonvolatile memory controller coupled to the interface, and a processor coupled to the nonvolatile memory controller. The SSD controller is configured to: receive, via the interface, a write command from the host machine; process, by the nonvolatile memory controller, the write command; transmit, from the nonvolatile memory controller to the processor, a system message; process, by the processor according to Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) protocol, the system message; obtain, by the nonvolatile memory controller via the interface, host data for storage from the host machine; and write the host data to the NAND memory based on a result of processing the system message. Processing the system message by the processor and obtaining the host data by the nonvolatile memory controller are executed in parallel.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-24 (18/174333).