G06F 2212/7205
Cleaning, compaction, garbage collection, erase control
G06F2212/7205 (Cleaning, compaction, garbage collection, erase control) appears on 2,611 US grants and 2,923 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,611
- Published applications
- 2,923
- Assignees
- 319
- Inventors
- 3,383
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 11 |
| 2004 | 4 | 6 |
| 2005 | 1 | 12 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12 |
| 2007 | 5 | 24 |
| 2008 | 11 | 42 |
| 2009 | 13 | 42 |
| 2010 | 10 | 39 |
| 2011 | 31 | 60 |
| 2012 | 48 | 81 |
| 2013 | 68 | 96 |
| 2014 | 89 | 122 |
| 2015 | 128 | 136 |
| 2016 | 136 | 179 |
| 2017 | 144 | 194 |
| 2018 | 158 | 199 |
| 2019 | 211 | 252 |
| 2020 | 262 | 308 |
| 2021 | 273 | 264 |
| 2022 | 272 | 235 |
| 2023 | 250 | 181 |
| 2024 | 192 | 189 |
| 2025 | 194 | 140 |
| 2026 | 71 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for performing sudden power off recovery process22 Sep 2026US 12,743,353 B2Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Controller for controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory and method of controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory8 Sep 2026US 12,730,748 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Hierarchical storage device with host-accessible subdivisions1 Sep 2026US 12,724,715 B1Radian Memory Systems, ILLC
- Systems and methods for performing bulk file storage system actions over a network protocol1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299801 A1Everpure, Inc.
- File-based garbage collection24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288635 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Dynamic Data Block Grouping Based On Garbage Collection Performance Parameters17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277802 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Memory controllers and operation methods thereof and memory systems27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252485 A1Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Data routing and memory block management in a sub-block memory system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252486 A1SanDisk Technologies LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flash eeprom system602US 5,297,148 ASunDisk Corporation · 1994
- Flash EEprom system524US 5,602,987 ASanDisk Corporation · 1997
- Flash EEPROM system with erase sector select437US 5,418,752 ASunDisk Corporation · 1995
- Flash memory mass storage architecture incorporating wear leveling technique without using cam cells376US 5,485,595 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1996
- Power efficient method for cold storage data retention management351US 8,843,700 B1NXGN Data, Inc. · 2014