US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for managing memory buffers for garbage collection in non-volatile storage devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,098, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for managing memory buffers for garbage collection in non-volatile storage devices" was invented by Nigel David Horspool (Great Missenden, Great Britain) and Brian Hatfield Clarke (Berks, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a controller, a non-volatile memory (NVM) array including an NVM and a program buffer, and a buffer for garbage collection. The controller may read valid data from a superblock and store the valid data to the buffer; in response to storing the valid data to the buffer, determine that a size of data stor...