US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on May 27 for "Background reads for solid state storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,576, issued on May 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Background reads for solid state storage" was invented by Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and Yuhong Mao (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing blocks of flash memory to decrease raw bit errors from the flash memory is provided. The method includes identifying one or more blocks of the flash memory for a refresh operation and writing information regarding the identified blocks, to a data structure. The method includes issuing background reads to the identified blocks, according to the da...