ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,879, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Methods of updating allocation state of logical block in logical block management table" was invented by Hai Fu (Wuhan, China) and Hongbo Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples of the present disclosure, a ring queue may be constructed according to a number of first logical blocks, and the number of elements of the ring queue may be the same as the number of first logical blocks. For example, a first input first output (FIFO) ring queue with a depth of M is initialized to manage the resource of the first logical blo...