US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 4 for "Scheme for data entry insertion in a sparsely populated data structure" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,668, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Scheme for data entry insertion in a sparsely populated data structure" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.) and Brian Toronyi (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of data entries are written in a first memory bank that comprises a portion of a data structure that is stored across a plurality of memory banks. For a subsequent data entry, a determination is made that the subsequent data entry has a value that is greater than a first data entry among the plurality of data entries in the first memory bank and less than a second d...