G06F 2212/7211
Wear leveling
G06F2212/7211 (Wear leveling) appears on 1,349 US grants and 1,422 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,349
- Published applications
- 1,422
- Assignees
- 270
- Inventors
- 1,971
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 10 | 10 |
| 2007 | 4 | 33 |
| 2008 | 14 | 43 |
| 2009 | 9 | 56 |
| 2010 | 26 | 73 |
| 2011 | 50 | 60 |
| 2012 | 63 | 63 |
| 2013 | 71 | 67 |
| 2014 | 69 | 97 |
| 2015 | 87 | 85 |
| 2016 | 106 | 95 |
| 2017 | 89 | 82 |
| 2018 | 78 | 73 |
| 2019 | 91 | 97 |
| 2020 | 120 | 121 |
| 2021 | 90 | 84 |
| 2022 | 114 | 89 |
| 2023 | 85 | 60 |
| 2024 | 68 | 58 |
| 2025 | 54 | 36 |
| 2026 | 20 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Storage system and operating method thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,754,836 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Media management29 Sep 2026US 12,748,542 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Memory control method, memory storage device and memory control circuit unit8 Sep 2026US 12,730,566 B2Hefei Kaimeng Technology Co., Ltd.
- Memory system and data rearrangement method11 Aug 2026US 12,705,136 B2Kioxia Corporation
- System, method and apparatus for accelerating fast block devices14 Jul 2026US 12,681,852 B1
- Memory system and control method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277789 A1Kioxia Corporation
- Periodic and activity-based memory management20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244568 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Balancing wear across multiple reclaim groups9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195048 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Signal development caching in a memory device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186709 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Flexible background data refresh architecture2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186958 A1
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
- Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems553US 6,230,233 B1SanDisk Corporation · 2001
- Flash memory mass storage architecture incorporating wear leveling technique without using cam cells376US 5,485,595 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1996
- Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems370US 6,081,447 ASanDisk Corporation · 2000
- Flash memory mass storage architecture incorporation wear leveling technique364US 5,479,638 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1995