Tidal Systems/Micron Assigned Patent

Tidal Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, (acquired by Micron Technology, Inc.) has been assigned a patent (9,547,550) developed by Thakore, Priyanka, San Jose, CA, and Lee, Meng Kun, Cupertino, CA, for a “system and method for improved data maintenance in a flash drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and method provide for the writing of a data block and corresponding metadata block to a storage location. Metadata and data block are encoded separately. The metadata and data block may be moved to a different location due to garbage collection, defragmentation, or some other prompt. The metadata is decoded, modified, re-encoded and written to the different location whereas the data block can be written to the new location without re-encoding.“

The patent application was filed on July 7, 2015 (14/793,376).