Shandong Storage Wings Electronics Technology Assigned Patent

Shandong Storage Wings Electronics Technology Co., Ltd., Yantai, China, has been assigned a patent (10,901,886) developed by Bi, Jianzhong, Yantai, China, for “hardware-based flash FTL function realization method and data storage device thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention are a hardware-based flash FTL function realization method and data storage device thereof, wherein the method comprises: when the data storage device is powered on, a state machine identifies the flash chip to acquire the chip information of the flash chip, the state machine establishes a target table according to the chip information, and the state machine realizes the FTL function of the flash controller according to the target table, wherein the FTL function comprises an address mapping function, a bad block management function and a garbage collection function.”

The patent application was filed on November 26, 2017 (15/822,160).