US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 1 for "Storage access communications and data placement for improved performance and reduced write amplification" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,717, issued on April 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Storage access communications and data placement for improved performance and reduced write amplification" was invented by Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory sub-system, such as a solid-state drive, configured to map a write stream to superblocks without the stream identifying a zone having a predetermined size in a namespace. The memory sub-system is configured to maintain, for the stream, a cursor configured to identify one of the plurality of superblocks as being reserved entirely for the stream; map, based on a superbl...