ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,713, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Efficient address translation cache lookup operations" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Redundancy bits can be used to more effectively manage address translation cache (ATC) in data storage devices. The data storage device maintains a table of redundancy bits. When a request for an address translation arrives, the redundancy bits are calculated and compared to redundancy bits in the table. If there is a match, then the relevant ATC entry is retrieved and compared to the untranslated addresses. The sam...