ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,134, issued on July 29, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hubei, China).

"Memory device fragmentation analysis based on logical-to-physical tables" was invented by Zhenran Lu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to fragmentation evaluation in a memory system. In one example, a method for operating a memory controller includes receiving, from a host, a request for a fragmentation level of a file stored in a memory device. The method further includes determining a read performance level of the file based on a logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping table corresponding to the ...