Marvell Assigned Patent

Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,166,217) developed by Theodore C. White, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, William W. Dennin and Angel G. Perozo, Mission Viejo, CA, for a "system and method for reading and writing data using storage controllers."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A
controller for interfacing a host and storage device is provided. The
controller includes a channel that can receive data from the storage
device in a first format and store the data in an intermediate buffer
memory in a second format. The channel includes conversion logic that
converts data from the first format to the second format and from the
second format to the first format depending upon whether data is being
read or written from the buffer memory. The conversion logic uses a
shuttle register and shuttle counter for aligning data that is being
transferred between the storage device and the buffer memory by
appropriately concatenating data to meet the first and second format
requirements. The first format is based on 10-bit symbols and the second
format is based on 8-bits."

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2004 (10/878,803).