Joseph Ashwood Assigned Patent

Joseph Ashwood, San Jose, CA, has developed a patent (8,397,011) for a "scalable mass storage device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A scalable storage device which includes non-volatile memory uses a networked bus system which can be employed on a single memory storage chip level or in a multi-chip package (MCP). The scalable storage device uses data routing modules which are adapted to store incoming data and send outgoing data thereby providing decoupling of the networked buses. This arrangement enables higher data transfer rates, surpassing DRAM SSDs at a fraction of the size and cost, provides increased volumetric density (1TB in less than one cubic inch), and permits concurrency of operations. The scalable storage device can be engineered to have a rewrite capability of over 500 times that of flash RAM and can scale down to 8 bits and up to exabytes, yottabytes and beyond. The scalable storage device may be used in a wide range of applications from large data centers to small consumer electronic products."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2007 (11/868,005).