ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,924, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hefei Kaimeng Technology Co. Ltd. (Anhui, China).

"Memory controller, memory device and memory management method" was invented by Chong Peng (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management method and a memory controller for executing virtual block mapping operations. The method performs initial virtual block mapping across multiple physical channels, then dynamically divides the channels into two groups when free blocks in a target channel fall below a threshold. By remapping blocks separately for each group, the method enables simultaneous garbage collection and host write ope...