ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,745, issued on June 24, was assigned to SCALEFLUX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Solid-state drive with multimode compression and error correction" was invented by Tong Zhang (Albany, N.Y.), Mark Vernon (San Jose, Calif.), Jiangpeng Li (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Liu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Fei Sun (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing compression and error correction coding (ECC) in a solid-state drive (SSD). A method is provided that includes: determining whether a data item is to be written to flash memory using a general-purpose mode or a zero-padding mode: in response to a determination that a d...