US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 25 for "Center allocation data structure" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,812, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Center allocation data structure" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.) and Brian Toronyi (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first data entry is written to an address location of a memory resource that is neither a first physical address nor a last physical address. In response to a determination that a second data entry has a value that is greater than a value associated with the first data entry, the second data entry is written to an address location that is physically located between the address location of the memory resource ...