ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,988, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Consolidated bitmap for live migration" was invented by Hua Ye (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respective bitmap of a set of bitmaps is divided into a plurality of logical pages and sequentially assigned a logical page number. A plurality of logical pages identified by a specified logical page number into a corresponding logical super-page is combined. A contiguous block of memory from a memory device of the plurality of memory device to the specified logical super-page is allocated. A mapping of the specified logical page number to a p...