ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,586, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Sequential garbage collection" was invented by David A. Palmer (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus for sequential garbage collection can include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks associated with a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs). The example apparatus can include a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller can be configured to monitor a quantity of read operations and a quantity of write operations associated with a plurality of command sizes performed on a portion of the plurali...