ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,166, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Mapping descriptors for read operations" was invented by Xing Hui Duan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for mapping descriptors for read operations are described. A memory device may include a first cache may include a mapping table between the logical addresses and the physical addresses, and a second cache may include one or more descriptors of one or more physical addresses of the memory array. A descriptor may include a starting logical address, a starting physical address, and a quantity of addresses in the descri...