ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,032, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Efficient consolidation for two layer FTL" was invented by Marina Frid (Jerusalem), Vered Kelner (Gan Haim, Ill.) and Igor Genshaft (Bat Yam, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved consolidation in dual-layer FTL. In preparation for the next control sync, the controller will generate a copy the uRegions uHeaders and will continue updating the uLayer uRegion with new uRun entries. After completing the control sync operation, the controller will then select the best consolidation candidate based on ...