ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,702, issued on July 15, was assigned to T-Head (Shanghai) Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Shanghai Free Trade Area, China).

"Programmable control system and method for solid state drive" was invented by Yuming Xu (Chengdu, China), Jiu Heng (Chengdu, China), Fei Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wentao Wu (Shanghai), Jifeng Wang (Chengdu, China), Jiajing Jin (Hangzhou, China) and Xiang Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state drive (SSD) includes an NAND memory and an SSD controller. The SSD controller includes an interface coupled to a host machine, a nonvolatile memory controller coupled to the interface, and a processor coupled to...