ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,243, issued on Dec. 30.
"Host assisted operations in managed memory devices" was invented by Nadav Grosz (Broomfield, Colo.) and Jonathan Scott Parry (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for efficient host assisted logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping are described herein. For example, a command can be executed that results in a change as to which physical address of a memory device corresponds to a logical address. The change can be obfuscated as part of an obfuscated L2P map for the memory device and written to storage on the memory device. The change can then be provided a host from the storage."
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