US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 15 for "Dynamic updates to logical-to-physical address translation table bitmaps" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,914, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Dynamic updates to logical-to-physical address translation table bitmaps" was invented by Nicola Colella (Caserta, Italy), Antonino Pollio (Vico Equense, Italy) and Gianfranco Ferrante (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: creating a logical-to-physical address translation (L2P) bitmap for each respective virtual block programmed across a plane of multiple dice of a memory device, each L2P bitmap identifying logical addresses, within each respective L2P table of a plurality of L2P tables, that belong to a respective virtual bloc...