ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,156, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Optimizing caching of a logical-to-physical (L2P) translation table in storage devices" was invented by Agalya Sachidanandam (Bengaluru, India) and Pavithra Padmanabha (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may optimize consolidation of a logical to physical (L2P) table stored on a volatile memory. A controller may execute a request to store data to a memory device and add a new L2P mapping to the L2P table. The controller may increment a global counter and a local counter associated with a region in the L2P table when da...