ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,585, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).
"Nonvolatile memory controller" was invented by Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow), Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Richard M. Mathews (Chatsworth, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory. The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This information assists the host in making decisions about specific operations, for example, initiating garbage collection, space reclamation, wear leveling or other operations. For example, metadata ...