US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 26 for "Exception list compression for logical-to-physical tables" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,208, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Exception list compression for logical-to-physical tables" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory apparatus may compress a physical page table associated with a logical-to-physical (L2P) table, to obtain a compressed version of the physical page table, wherein the physical page table is associated with logical block address (LBA) and physical address pairs, wherein the compressed version is associated with a set of groups of LBAs and an exception list, and wherein the compressed vers...