ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,133, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Effective storage allocation for sequentially-written memory devices" was invented by Luca Bert (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output (I/O) erase request directed at memory devices is received by a processing device. The erase request includes logical block address that is associated with a data object. The memory devices include groups of zones corresponding to sequential logical addresses. The plurality of zones are associated with a compound data object that includes a plurality of data objects, including the data object. One...