US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Flexibly sized virtual layer blocks for logical address mapping" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,560, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Flexibly sized virtual layer blocks for logical address mapping" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working set of data blocks to be flushed from a cache to non-volatile data storage is identified, and a physical block of non-volatile data storage is allocated. At least some of the data blocks in the working set are compressed to generate compressed data blocks. The compressed data blocks are stored into the physical block of non-volatile data storage. For each one o...