US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Dec. 2 for "Writing parity data to a targeted wordline" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,884, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Writing parity data to a targeted wordline" was invented by Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Robert Lee (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geometry-aware method of writing parity, performed by a storage system is provided. The method includes writing data, using error correction coding, to a RAID stripe comprising a plurality of allocation units of storage memory of the storage system, and writing one or more parity pages comprising parity data for a block having a portion of the data of the RAID stripe in one of the plurality of allo...