ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,053, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Data block allocation for storage system" was invented by Shuyi Shao (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuhong Mao (Fremont, Calif.) and Peter E. Kirkpatrick (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reading data stored at a free block of a storage device is read prior to allocating the free block for storage of data. A determination as to whether a number of bit flips of the data stored at the free block is below a threshold is made. The free block is added to a pool of active free blocks to be allocated for the storage of data upon determining that the num...