ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,655, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).
"Management of discrete namespaces by nonvolatile memory controller" was invented by Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow), Alan Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques for managing memory which match per-data metrics to those of other data or to memory destination. In one embodiment, wear data is tracked for at least one tier of nonvolatile memory (e.g., flash memory) and a measure of data persistence (e.g., age, write frequency, etc.) is generated or tracked for each dat...