ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,054, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Methods of operating memory controllers, devices and storage media" was invented by Xiangda Meng (Wuhan, China) and Xiang Chen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present application disclose a method of operating a memory controller, a device and a storage medium. The controller is coupled to the memory, and the method includes: acquiring respective lifetimes of at least two partitions included in the memory, the lifetimes of the partitions being related to wear levels of the partitions; determining a target ...