US Patent Issued to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "System and method for defragmentation of memory device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,942, issued on March 18, was assigned to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"System and method for defragmentation of memory device" was invented by Mo Cheng (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, the memory controller includes a controller memory for storing a logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping table corresponding to a file, and a controller processor configured to control a memory device, receive a mapping update command, and update the L2P address mapping table according to the mapping update command by replacing original logical addresses of logical block address (LBA) segments ...