ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,460, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SanDisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Thin provisioning L2P resource sharing" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logical to physical (L2P) tables are implemented in solid state drives (SSDs) to hold L2P address translations. In a thin provisioning or thin storage system, the L2P table is sized to support the total amount of memory that is available to be allocated on a per client or per host basis. During thin provisioning, the total amount of memory is not typically utilized. As such, the L2P table, which is...