ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,162, issued on June 17, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power tearing protection within a non-volatile memory (NVM)" was invented by Andrea Castelnuovo (Hamburg, Germany), Alexandre Frey (Hamburg, Germany) and Soenke Ostertun (Wedel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory (NVM) system includes a memory array divided into physical pages, control circuitry, and a global transaction log (GTL). Each physical page is configured to store a corresponding payload and corresponding metadata for the physical page. Each entry of the GTL is configured to store a transaction descriptor identifying a trans...