US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 23 for "Performing memory access operations based on quad-level cell to single-level cell mapping table" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,915, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing memory access operations based on quad-level cell to single-level cell mapping table" was invented by Michael Winterfeld (Firestone, Colo.) and Guanying Wu (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quad-to-single (Q2S) data structure comprising a plurality of entries maintained on a volatile memory device. Each Q2S mapping entry, identified by a physical address of a quad-level cell (QLC) block stripe of a non-volatile memory device, comprises a bit flag and a pointer to a linked list on the volatile memory device. Responsive to programmi...