ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,645, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device to update one or more L2P mapping tables based on journal repository" was invented by Nishchay Malakar (Bengaluru, India), Anantha Sharma (Bengaluru, India), Sharath Kumar Kodase (Bengaluru, India), Gangheyamoorthy Ayyanar Ponnusamy (Bengaluru, India) and Sushma Vishwakarma (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, a method for improved metadata management includes receiving a memory write command from a host device, performing the data write operation, storing a mapping of the logical add...