ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,644, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Astera Labs Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Free block address management for compressed data storage" was invented by Justina Provine (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes aspects of free block address management for compressed data storage. In various aspects, a memory controller maintains addresses of free blocks of a memory through a linked list of address storage blocks stored in the memory. An address storage block may include addresses of the free blocks of the memory and an address to a next address storage block of the linked list (e.g., block fr...