ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,570, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Techniques for managing writes in nonvolatile memory" was invented by Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques for managing writes of data useful for storage systems that do not permit overwrite of a logical address. One implementation provides a nonvolatile memory storage drive, such as a flash memory drive, that provides support for zoned drive and/or Open Channel-compliant architectures. Circuitry on the storage drive t...