US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 18 for "Customizable solid-state drive for improved capacity and endurance" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,847, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Customizable solid-state drive for improved capacity and endurance" was invented by Peng Li (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments generally relate to programming NAND blocks of a solid-state device (SSD) to any suitable block type and utilizing the programmed NAND blocks to efficiently process computer operations performed by a solid-state drive (SSD). Example block types include a single-level cell (SLC), a multi-level cell (MLC), a triple-level (TLC), or a quad-level cell (QLC). The block type are stored in a mapping ...