Lodestar Licensing Group Assigned Patent

Lodestar Licensing Group LLC, Evanston, IL, has been assigned a patent (11954051) developed by Golov, Gil, Backnang, Germany, for a “managed NAND flash memory region control against endurance hacking.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosed embodiments are directed to improving the lifespan of a memory device. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed comprising: a host processor and a memory device, wherein the host processor is configured to receive a write command from a virtual machine, identify a region identifier associated with the virtual machine, augment the write command with the region identifier, and issue the write command to the memory device, and the memory device is configured to receive the write command, identify a region comprising a subset of addresses writable by the memory device using a region configuration table, and write the data to an address in the subset of addresses.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-08-29 (17/897656).