G06F 12/023
Free address space management
Official title: {Free address space management}
G06F12/023 (Free address space management) appears on 17,422 US grants and 18,950 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 17,422
- Published applications
- 18,950
- Assignees
- 1,713
- Inventors
- 19,805
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 88 | 0 |
| 2001 | 99 | 35 |
| 2002 | 114 | 115 |
| 2003 | 112 | 150 |
| 2004 | 129 | 218 |
| 2005 | 128 | 256 |
| 2006 | 200 | 207 |
| 2007 | 157 | 302 |
| 2008 | 184 | 450 |
| 2009 | 191 | 466 |
| 2010 | 275 | 583 |
| 2011 | 377 | 575 |
| 2012 | 562 | 690 |
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| 2018 | 980 | 995 |
| 2019 | 1086 | 1383 |
| 2020 | 1363 | 1402 |
| 2021 | 1283 | 1328 |
| 2022 | 1344 | 1197 |
| 2023 | 1214 | 985 |
| 2024 | 1058 | 965 |
| 2025 | 950 | 935 |
| 2026 | 563 | 666 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Data storage accessible by a host using different communication protocols based on the mating orientation of a reversible connector6 Oct 2026US 12,754,834 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Address mapping table for a memory sub-system using mixed translation unit sizes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,835 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Storage system and operating method thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,754,836 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Data storage device performing checkpointing operation and method of operating the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,837 B2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Garbage collection using detail card tables6 Oct 2026US 12,754,838 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Memory buffer for bandwidth-critical data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310599 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Efficient deallocation for data recovery in a data storage device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310606 A1Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Systems and methods for performing bulk file storage system actions over a network protocol1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299801 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Method and system for providing improved memory management in a portable computing device (pcd)1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300007 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Reduced data stored in intent logs of storage systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300095 A1VDURA, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flash file system733US 5,404,485 AM-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. · 1995
- Unified re-map and cache-index table with dual write-counters for wear-leveling of non-volatile flash RAM mass storage666US 6,000,006 ABit Microsystems, Inc. · 1999
- Memory management system and method627US 8,200,887 B2Violin Memory, Inc. · 2012
- Flash eeprom system602US 5,297,148 ASunDisk Corporation · 1994
- Memory system with multiple striping of raid groups and method for performing the same595US 9,632,870 B2Violin Memory, Inc. · 2017