US Patent Issued to BEIJING MEMBLAZE TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Method for selecting a data block to be collected in GC and storage device thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,697, issued on July 15, was assigned to BEIJING MEMBLAZE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Method for selecting a data block to be collected in GC and storage device thereof" was invented by Jinyi Wang (Beijing) and Xiangfeng Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a garbage collection method and a storage device for reducing write amplification. A method for selecting a data block to be collected in garbage collection, including: obtaining, according to a first selection policy, a first data block to be collected; determining, according to a first rejection policy, whether to refuse to collect the ...