ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,959, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data compression for mapping tables" was invented by Deping He (Boise, Idaho) and Wenjun Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data compression for mapping tables are described. A memory system may store a table that includes mappings between a set of logical block addresses and a set of physical block addresses. The table may be stored to volatile memory of the memory system and each entry may include a subset of physical block addresses and one or more logical block addresses that correspond to the subset of physi...