US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on June 3 for "Hybrid solid state drive (SSD) architecture using MRAM and NAND for improved power loss protection and performance" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,639, issued on June 3, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Hybrid solid state drive (SSD) architecture using MRAM and NAND for improved power loss protection and performance" was invented by Fei Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wentao Wu (Shanghai), Jiajing Jin (Hangzhou, China), Xiang Gao (Shanghai), Jifeng Wang (Chengdu, China), Yuming Xu (Chengdu, China), Jiu Heng (Chengdu, China) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SSD includes an MRAM, an NAND memory, and an SSD controller. The SSD controller is configured to receive first data from a host machine, save the first data to an SS...