US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 7 for "Techniques for logical-to-physical information compression" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,644, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for logical-to-physical information compression" was invented by Daming Liu (Shanghai), Qingyuan Wang (Shanghai), Lei Cui (Shanghai) and Wenjun Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for logical-to-physical information compression are described. In some cases, a memory system may compress a logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping to expand the quantity of physical addresses mapped by the L2P mapping. For example, if a set of consecutive entries of an uncompressed L2P mapping includes consecutive physi...