US Patent Issued to Radian Memory Systems on Feb. 10 for "Storage drive" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,548, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Storage drive" 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/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible log...