ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,010, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Intelligent wear leveling with reduced write-amplification for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles" was invented by Robert Richard Noel Bielby (Placerville, Calif.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus of intelligent wear-leveling with reduced write-amplification for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles. For example, a data storage device of a vehicle includes: storage media components; a controller configured to store data into and retrieve data from the...