ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,465, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Buffer expansion for random write operations" was invented by Ritesh Tiwari (Karnataka, India), Sridhar Prudviraj Gunda (Karnataka, India) and Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for buffer expansion for random write operations are described. Implementations provide buffer expansion for random write operations used to store L2P address translation table data under certain recognized operation workloads. Memory locations within the memory system controller are typically allocated for use during various...