ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,339, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Logical-to-physical table compression using an exception list and a logical tree" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory apparatus may receive a command indicating a logical block address (LBA) that is associated with a logical-to-physical (L2P) table. The memory apparatus may perform a lookup operation associated with a compressed version of an address range of the L2P table to identify a physical address in non-volatile memory associated with the LBA, wherein the compressed versi...