G06F 12/0238
Memory management in non-volatile memory
Official title: {Memory management in non-volatile memory, e.g. resistive RAM or ferroelectric memory}
G06F12/0238 (Memory management in non-volatile memory) appears on 13,275 US grants and 14,993 published applications in this corpus.
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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
- System and method for early prefetch for memory device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,848 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Efficient deallocation for data recovery in a data storage device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310606 A1Microchip Technology Incorporated
- 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.
- Memory management method for training transformer-based models using memory usage profiling1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300156 A1
- Data placement with namespace granularity in a memory sub-system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300157 A1Micron Technology, 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