ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,111, issued on May 6, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Pattern forming for heterogeneous erase blocks" was invented by Eric D. Seppanen (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew R. Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy W. Brennan (San Francisco), Mark L McAuliffe (San Francisco) and Neil Buda Vachharajani (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using flash storage devices with different sized erase blocks is provided. The method includes allocating a plurality of erase blocks of heterogeneous erase block sizes to a RAID stripe, to form a tile pattern having the heterogeneous erase block sizes i...