ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,744, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data storage method and flash device for allocating a physical address based on a flash translation layer" was invented by Jianhua Zhou (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage method in a flash device and a flash device, where the flash device includes a plurality of flash translation layers (FTLs), each of the FTLs records a mapping from a logical address to a flash physical address, and granularities of logical addresses of the FTLs are different. After receiving a write operation request, the flash device selects a targe...