US Patent Issued to Radian Memory Systems on March 17 for "Techniques for directed data migration" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,900, issued on March 17, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Techniques for directed data migration" was invented by Alan Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.), Craig Robertson (Simi Valley, Calif.), Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host stores "context" metadata for logical block addresses (LBAs) in a manner tied to physical location. Notwithstanding log-structured or copy on write processes, the host is then provided with immediate context when the host is called upon to assist a memory controller with data identified by physical location, for example,...