US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 28 for "Virtual indexing in a memory device" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,448, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Virtual indexing in a memory device" was invented by Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.), Jianmin Huang (San Carlos, Calif.), Xiaolai Zhu (Shanghai), Deping He (Boise, Idaho), Kulachet Tanpairoj (San Mateo, Calif.), Hong Lu (Boise, Idaho) and Chun Sum Yeung (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes writing, to a first data structure, indices corresponding to address locations of a logical-to-physical (L2P) data structure that maps a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs) associated with the L2P data structure, initiating performan...