ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,408, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cloning based on block stripe versioning" was invented by Donghua Zhou (Shanghai), Meng Wei (Shanghai) and Siqi Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments provide cloning a source memory system to a destination memory system based on block stripe versioning, which can be used to determine translation unit write sequences. In particular, various example embodiments enable a host system to use block stripe version numbers and data that describes a write sequence of TUs within individual block stripes to rapidly replicate one or m...