Sony Semiconductor Solutions Assigned Patent

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12046281) developed by Kuroda; Masami, Kanagawa, Japan, for “storage apparatus, storage control apparatus, and storage apparatus control method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Provided is a storage apparatus that reduces the power needed to write corrected data back to a memory. The storage apparatus includes a memory and a write control section. The memory stores data in units of multiple cells each representing a predetermined value. The write control section receives write-back data having a specific value in a position corresponding to at least one of the multiple cells, as well as a write-back command regarding the specific value. The write control section performs control to write the specific value only to the cell corresponding to the position indicative of the specific value in the write-back data.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-12 (17/780654).