ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,857, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for writing data to solid-state drive" was invented by Wen Zhou (Shanghai), Zhen Cheng (Shanghai), Yi Su (Shanghai) and Hongfeng Jiang (Baku, Azerbaijan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for writing data to a solid-state drive, both a byte-level write interface and a page-level write interface are provided. Full-page input/output (I/O) data is written to a flash chip through the page-level interface, and small I/O data is written to a storage class memory (SCM) chip through the byte-level interface."

The patent was filed on Sept...