US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Nov. 18 for "Storage system and information processing system for managing stored data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,038, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage system and information processing system for managing stored data" was invented by Michiko Emaru (Tokyo) and Koji Maruya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller, when a first possible storage period corresponding to a first data portion among one or more data portions is equal to or more than a first threshold in one or more possible storage periods, writes the first data portion to one or more second blocks different from one or more first blocks and invalidate the first data portion stored in the one or more firs...