ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,321, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Address translation" was invented by Chung Kuang Chin (Saratoga, Calif.), Di Hsien Ngu (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Horia C. Simionescu (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Translated addresses of a memory device can be stored in a first LUT maintained by control circuitry. Untranslated addresses can be stored in a second LUT maintained by the control circuitry. In response to a translation request for a particular translated address of the memory device corresponding to a target untranslated address, an index of the second LUT associated wi...