Proton World International Assigned Patent

Proton World International N.V., Diegem, Belgium (acquired by STMicroelectronics N.V.), has been assigned a patent (10,089,029) developed by Docquier, Guillaume, Liege, Belgium, and Van Keer, Ronny, Hoeilaart, Belgium, for “storage in flash memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of data storage in a non-volatile memory, wherein the non-volatile memory is divided into: a first region in which each page includes fields adapted to contain data and a field adapted to contain metadata, a second region in which each page includes fields adapted to contain data and a field adapted to contain metadata, a third region adapted to contain indicators of the progress of an operation in the first and second regions, the metadata fields of the first and second regions being respectively adapted to contain, during an operation of data update in a page of the first region, the indexes of a page in the second region and of said page of the first region.”

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2016 (15/195,881).