US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 13 for "Namespace size adjustment in non-volatile memory devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,280, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Namespace size adjustment in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Alex Frolikov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: store a namespace map mapping blocks of logical block addresses in a namespace to blocks from a logical address capacity of the non-volatile storage media; adjust the namespace map to change the size of the namespace; and translate logical addresses in the namespace to physic...