US Patent Issued on May 12 for "Using a flag to indicate whether a mapping entry points to sequentially stored data" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,805, issued on May 12.

"Using a flag to indicate whether a mapping entry points to sequentially stored data" was invented by Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho) and Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for compressed logical-to-physical mapping for sequentially stored data are described. A memory device may use a hierarchical set of logical-to-physical mapping tables for mapping logical block address generated by a host device to physical addresses of the memory device. The memory device may determine whether all of the entries of a terminal logical-to-physical mapping table are con...