US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 2 for "Associating key-value pair sets with leaf nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,371, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Associating key-value pair sets with leaf nodes" was invented by Gregory Alan Becker (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Tomlinson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may identify a key-value pair set associated with a root node, wherein the key-value pair set includes a plurality of key-value pairs, and wherein the root node is associated with a log-structured merge-tree. The memory device may determine that a plurality of keys in the key-value pair set are associated with a leaf node based on the plurality of k...