US Patent Issued to Radian Memory Systems, ILLC on May 20 for "Hierarchical storage device with host controlled subdivisions" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,766, issued on May 20, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems, ILLC (Plano, Texas).

"Hierarchical storage device with host controlled subdivisions" was invented by Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Alan Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.), Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Craig Robertson (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/...