Avalanche Assigned Patent

Avalanche Technology, Inc. Fremont, CA , has been assigned a patent (8,909,855), developed by Nemazie Siamack, Los Altos Hills, CA, for a “storage system employing MRAM and physically addressed solid state disk.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system includes a CPU that has a physically-addressed solid state disk SSD, addressable using physical addresses associated with user data and provided by a host. The user data is to be stored in or retrieved from the physically-addressed SSD in blocks. Further, a non-volatile memory module is coupled to the CPU and includes flash tables used to manage blocks in the physically addressed SSD. The flash tables have tables that are used to map logical to physical blocks for identifying the location of stored data in the physically addressed SSD. The flash tables are maintained in the non-volatile memory modules thereby avoiding reconstruction of the flash tables upon power interruption.“

The patent application was filed on February 18, 2013 (13/769,710).