ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,561, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reading sequential data using mapping information stored at a host device" was invented by Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy), Nicola Colella (Capodrise, Italy), Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy) and Marco Onorato (Villasanta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are described to indicate, in an entry of logical to physical (L2P) mapping information stored at a host system, whether data associated with the entry is sequential to other data associated with a next entry or a previous entry. Each entry may have a third field, which may...