ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,627, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"File system storage allocation based on zones of a memory device" was invented by Kumar Vkh Kanteti (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing file system storage allocation using zones of a memory device. An example method involving a host system: receiving zone characteristic data from a memory sub-system that includes a memory device, wherein the memory device includes a plurality of zones and wherein the zone characteristic data comprises one or more locations in the memory device corresponding to the plurality ...