Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (11941257) developed by Huang, Yiren, San Jose, CA, for “method and apparatus for flexible RAID in SSD.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A solid state drive (SSD) employing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) scheme includes a flash memory chip, erasable blocks in the flash memory chip, and a flash controller. The erasable blocks are configured to store flash memory pages. The flash controller is operably coupled to the flash memory chip. The flash controller is also configured to organize certain of the flash memory pages into a RAID line group and to write RAID line group membership information to each of the flash memory pages in the RAID line group.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-11-09 (17/983685).