US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "Storage pool resizing to meet memory endurance targets" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,984, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Storage pool resizing to meet memory endurance targets" was invented by Roman Alexander Pletka (Uster, Switzerland), Nikolaos Papandreou (Thalwil, Switzerland), M. Dean Sciacca (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Timothy J. Fisher (Cypress, Texas), Aaron Daniel Fry (Richmond, Texas), Radu Ioan Stoica (Zurich), Charalampos Pozidis (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Andrew D. Walls (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory includes physical blocks each including a respective plurality of cells, where each cell is capable of storing mul...