ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,657, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hefei Core Storage Electronic Ltd. (Anhui, China).

"Storage controller, data reading method and storage device" was invented by Zhenyu Xu (Jiangxi, China), Kuai Cao (Anhui, China), Yuting Niu (Anhui, China), Tsung-Lin Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Qi-Ao Zhu (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller, a data reading method and a storage device. data reading method: identifying a plurality of logical addresses corresponding to files based on file read commands; determining a plurality of mapping tables corresponding to files based on logical addresses; loading a first mappi...