Taejin InfoTech Assigned Patent

Taejin Info Tech Co., Ltd. Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,904,104), developed by Cho Byungcheol, Seochogu, Korea, for a “hybrid storage system with mid-plane.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention relates to semiconductor storage systems (SSDs). Specifically, the present invention relates to a hybrid storage system with a mid-plane. In a typical embodiment, a mid-plane is provided. Coupled to one side of the mid-plane is a system control board and a communications module having a set (at least one) of ports. Coupled to a second side of the mid-plane is (among other components) a first RAID controller, which itself is coupled to a double data rate semiconductor storage device (DDR SSD) module having a set of DDR SSD units. Also coupled to the second side of the mid-plane is a second RAID controller, which itself is coupled to a hard disk drive (HDD) module having a set of HDD/Flash SDD units.“

The patent application was filed on June 9, 2010 (12/796,709).