ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,888, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INNODISK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Data access method of solid-state drive device and solid-state drive device" was invented by Chung-Yi Lai (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-Xing Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data access method of a solid-state drive (SSD) device includes storing data into a volatile memory or reading the data from the volatile memory according to an instruction from a host. Next, upon receiving a shutdown command from the host or detecting a power-off signal, transferring the data stored in the volatile memory to a non-volatile memory from mapping ...