US Patent Issued to T-HEAD (CHENGDU) SEMICONDUCTOR on July 7 for "Wear leveling method, solid-state drive and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,400, issued on July 7, was assigned to T-HEAD (CHENGDU) SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Wear leveling method, solid-state drive and storage medium" was invented by Jiajing Jin (Hangzhou, China), Jiu Heng (Chengdu, China) and Xiang Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solid-state drive and a wear leveling method. The solid-state drive includes a plurality of zones, a mapping relationship and an SSD controller. The SSD controller is configured to: determine, according to the mapping relationship, an identifier of a first target zone corresponding to an identifier of a to-be-written zone in response to re...