US Patent Issued to Radian Memory Systems on March 17 for "Storage device with erase unit level address mapping" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,062, issued on March 17, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Storage device with erase unit level address mapping" was invented by Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow) and James G. Wayda (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and performs logical-to-physical address translation in a manner that reduces or eliminates the need for a memory controller to handle these functions, and initiates functions such as wear leveling in a manner th...