ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,101, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Predictive center allocation data structure" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.) and Sureshkumar Shastry Vemuri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory resource configured to store data entries in a data memory resource including a first data structure and a second data structure and a processing device coupled to the memory resource. The processing device is configured to determine a predicted address location in the first data structure, compare the predicted address location to at least one address thre...