ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,627, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Address mapping table compression" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for address mapping table compression are described. A memory system may identify, for a region of an address mapping table, sets of sequentially indexed logical addresses that are mapped to sets of sequentially indexed physical addresses. The memory system may select a compression factor for the region based on the sets of sequentially indexed logical addresses. And the memory system may remove subsets of physic...