US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 20 for "Data flush at power loss" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,098, issued on May 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data flush at power loss" was invented by Minjian Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data flush at power loss can include a solid state drive (SSD) receiving a power loss notification from a host. In response to the power loss notification, the SSD can flush dirty pages from a logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping table cached in volatile memory of the SSD to an L2P mapping table stored in non-volatile memory of the SSD. In response to the power loss notification, the SSD can flush dirty pages from an L2P mapping table cached in volatile memory of the...