US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on July 8 for "Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,741, issued on July 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Steven Wells (San Jose, Calif.), Neil Buxton (Berkshire, Great Britain), Nigel Horspool (Abingdon, Great Britain), Mohinder Saluja (Cupertino, Calif.) and Paul Suhler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for managing superblocks, including a non-volatile storage including a superblock and a controller configured to notify a host of a size of the superblock to a host, determine a stream that aligns with the superblo...