G06F 2212/72
Details relating to flash memory management
G06F2212/72 (Details relating to flash memory management) appears on 10,534 US grants and 11,947 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 11,947
- Assignees
- 923
- Inventors
- 10,907
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 15 | 0 |
| 1999 | 23 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 11 |
| 2002 | 15 | 13 |
| 2003 | 18 | 45 |
| 2004 | 24 | 33 |
| 2005 | 22 | 55 |
| 2006 | 41 | 58 |
| 2007 | 24 | 101 |
| 2008 | 50 | 186 |
| 2009 | 47 | 248 |
| 2010 | 79 | 376 |
| 2011 | 188 | 354 |
| 2012 | 319 | 378 |
| 2013 | 373 | 464 |
| 2014 | 449 | 545 |
| 2015 | 587 | 618 |
| 2016 | 592 | 651 |
| 2017 | 561 | 638 |
| 2018 | 615 | 698 |
| 2019 | 731 | 996 |
| 2020 | 958 | 1066 |
| 2021 | 954 | 1051 |
| 2022 | 1057 | 931 |
| 2023 | 949 | 774 |
| 2024 | 785 | 707 |
| 2025 | 680 | 583 |
| 2026 | 327 | 367 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 2212/7201Logical to physical mapping or translation of blocks or pagesIndexing code4,683
- G06F 2212/7205Cleaning, compaction, garbage collection, erase controlIndexing code2,611
- G06F 2212/7208Multiple device managementIndexing code2,289
- G06F 2212/7203Temporary bufferingIndexing code2,181
- G06F 2212/7202Allocation control and policiesIndexing code1,372
- G06F 2212/7211Wear levelingIndexing code1,349
- G06F 2212/7207Management of metadata or control dataIndexing code1,277
- G06F 2212/7204Capacity controlIndexing code1,012
Recent patents
- 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
- Media management29 Sep 2026US 12,748,542 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Optimized garbage collection29 Sep 2026US 12,748,696 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Systems and methods for performing bulk file storage system actions over a network protocol1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299801 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Temperature-based wordline leakage testing for memory devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299810 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Hardware descriptor mapping1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300158 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- System and methods for adaptive program-verify control in nand programming1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300170 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Memory system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288631 A1Kioxia Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Flash eeprom system602US 5,297,148 ASunDisk Corporation · 1994
- Semiconductor memory device and method for writing data into flash memory560US 7,107,389 B2Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2006
- Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems553US 6,230,233 B1SanDisk Corporation · 2001
- Flash EEprom system524US 5,602,987 ASanDisk Corporation · 1997