Kingston Digital Assigned Patent

Kingston Digital, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,520,992) developed by Mothilal, Arunprasad Ramiya, San Jose, CA, for a “logical-to-physical address translation for a removable data storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for making memory more reliable involves accessing data stored in a removable storage device by translating a logical memory address provided by a host digital device to a physical memory address in the device. A logical memory address is received from the host digital device. The logical memory address corresponds to a location of data stored on the removable storage device. A physical memory address corresponding to the local address is determined by accessing a lookup table corresponding to the logical zone.“

The patent application was filed on March 11, 2016 (15/068,089).