ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,521, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"DRAM layout for logical-to-physical (L2P) address indirection table (AIT)" was invented by Zion Kwok (Burnaby, Canada) and Steven Williams (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to compressing a logical-to-physical address indirection table in a memory system of an electronic device. The electronic device identifies an address block including a plurality of physical addresses that corresponds to an ordered sequence of logical addresses. Each logical address corresponds to a distinct p...