US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 23 for "Garbage collection for flash translation layer tables" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,091, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Garbage collection for flash translation layer tables" was invented by Andrei Konan (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active drop scheme is selected from multiple drop schemes based on the active drop scheme having an associated drop request. The active drop scheme is associated with a first flash translation layer (FTL) table. A drop group is selected based on the active drop scheme. The drop group includes multiple segments of the first FTL table. The drop group is flushed to a memory device. Mapping information for the drop group is up...