US Patent Issued to Micron Techology on June 17 for "Source address memory managment" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,181, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Techology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Source address memory managment" was invented by Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.), Jianmin Huang (San Carlos, Calif.) and Xiaolai Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to source address memory management are described. For example, a controller can be coupled to a memory device to select a source block, a destination block, and a metadata block. The controller can store metadata indicative of an address of the source block in the metadata block. The controller can perform a memory management operation to trans...