US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 4 for "Address translation metadata compression in memory devices" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,650, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Address translation metadata compression in memory devices" was invented by Brian Toronyi (Boulder, Colo.) and Scheheresade Virani (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a memory access request specifying a logical address of a data item and a memory access operation to be performed with respect to the data item; produce a truncated logical address by applying a predefined mathematical...