ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,310, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Logical to physical (L2P) address mapping with fast L2P table load times" was invented by Steven R. Narum (Meridian, Idaho) and Huapeng Guan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may detect a memory operation that updates a level two volatile (L2V) entry stored in an L2V table. Each L2V entry in the L2V table may indicate a mapping between a respective logical block address (LBA) and a respective user data physical address in non-volatile memory. The memory operation may cause a mapping between an LBA indicated in the L2V ...