US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 22 for "Garbage collection with reduced buffer usage" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,373, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Garbage collection with reduced buffer usage" was invented by Ritesh Tiwari (Bangalore, India) and Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein provide for performing garbage collection with reduced buffer usage on a memory system. In particular, various embodiments use program suspend and program resume during garbage collection to facilitate performance of the garbage collection using a buffer that is smaller in size than buffers used during conventional garbage collection processes."

The patent ...