US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 7 for "Log-structured file system for a zoned block memory device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,683, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Log-structured file system for a zoned block memory device" was invented by Olivier Duval (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device writes file system data to a first area of a memory zone of a zoned block memory device based on a current position of a write pointer within the memory zone. The file system data comprises data files contained within a file system and file structure metadata describing a file structure of the file system. The processing device detects a write event based on the write pointer advancing past a predet...