G06F 12/0246
In block erasable memory
Official title: {in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory}
G06F12/0246 (In block erasable memory) appears on 11,886 US grants and 13,479 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2026 | 407 | 474 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and system for providing improved memory management in a portable computing device (pcd)1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300007 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Data placement with namespace granularity in a memory sub-system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300157 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
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- Decoding method and associated flash memory controller and memory device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300159 A1Silicon Motion, 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