The-AiO and Essencore Assigned Patent

The-AiO Inc., Gyeonggi-Do, Korea, and Essencore Limited, Hong Kong, China, has been assigned a patent (10,613,767) developed by Kwon, Seok Cheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and Han, Seung Hyun, Seoul, Korea, for a “non-volatile memory system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-volatile memory system includes a NAND flash memory device including at least one NAND flash memory and a memory controller that controls the NAND flash memory, a host device including a file system and a host controller that receives a command from the file system to provide the command to the NAND flash memory device, and a save storage manager that monitors a number and location of run-time bad blocks in the NAND flash memory, monitors a logical address use-state of the file system, and reduces a logical address space which the file system is able to use as the number of the run-time bad blocks is increased.”

The patent application was filed on May 18, 2018 (15/983,176).