ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,566, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Direct logical-to-physical address mapping for sequential physical addresses" was invented by Lalla Fatima Drissi (Ottaviano, Italy), Doriana Tardio (Salerno, Italy), Giuseppe D'Eliseo (Caserta, Italy) and Giuseppe Ferrari (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A memory system may write data to sequential physical addresses of the memory system based on receiving multiple write commands, where the sequential physical addresses may be associated with sequential logical addresses. Bas...