US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 10 for "Compaction of a logical-to-physical table for zoned namespace nonvolatile memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,031, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Compaction of a logical-to-physical table for zoned namespace nonvolatile memory" was invented by Avinash Muthya Narahari (Bangalore, India) and Rajthilak Dasarathan (Tiruchirappalli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Zoned Namespace data storage device configured to perform logical-to-physical (L2P) address translation using first and second L2P tables of different respective granularities. In an example embodiment, the first L2P table has a finer (e.g., page-level) granularity and is used to perform L2P address translation for open zones. Th...