ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,763, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data defragmentation control" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy) and Yanhua Bi (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data defragmentation control are described. A memory system may include one or more regions of logical addresses and a plurality of memory cells arranged according to a plurality of physical addresses. In some instances, data may be stored to one or more discontinuous physical addresses and it may be desirable rearrange the data to be within continuous physical addresses (e.g., it may be de...