US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 21 for "Optimization of an active range of mSets stored in a compressed address table" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,120, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimization of an active range of mSets stored in a compressed address table" was invented by Nava Singer (Petach tikwa, Israel) and Jonathan Journo (Shaarey tikwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller maintains logical block address (LBA) to physical block address (PBA) mappings as mSets in a storage address table (SAT). Because the SAT may include many mappings, and, consequently, have a large size, the SAT may be stored in a distanced memory from the controller, such as a non-volatile memory device of the data storage device or a ...