ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,871, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Storage controller and a method for improved memory handling" was invented by Zvi Schneider (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller controls a storage memory where the storage memory includes at least one first tier memory and at least one second tier memory. The first tier memory has a higher access speed than the second tier memory. The storage memory is being arranged to store memory blocks of data grouped in memory chunks associated with an index. A memory chunk indicates the size of a memory operation. The storage control...