US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 18 for "Selecting data transfer units associated with a data stream for garbage collection" (Colorado, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,040, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selecting data transfer units associated with a data stream for garbage collection" was invented by Antonio David Bianco (Boise, Idaho) and Steven S. Williams (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data stream processing for media management are described. A set of transfer units of a plurality of transfer units associated with a cursor of a garbage collection procedure are selected. The selecting is based on a set of data streams corresponding to the cursor and each transfer unit of the set of transfer units is ...