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Lexar Media, Inc.

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86Patents
11Active
86Granted
41Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 13, 1995 → Dec 15, 2009 · 11 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5835935A Method of and architecture for controlling system data with automatic wear leveling in a semiconductor non-volatile mass storage memory Physics 352 Expired
US5907856A Moving sectors within a block of information in a flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 281 Expired
US6725321B1 Memory system Physics 240 Expired
US6128695A Identification and verification of a sector within a block of mass storage flash memory Physics 220 Expired
US6772274B1 Flash memory system and method implementing LBA to PBA correlation within flash memory array Physics 219 Expired
US5930815A Moving sequential sectors within a block of information in a flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 207 Expired
US6041001A Method of increasing data reliability of a flash memory device without compromising compatibility Physics 190 Expired
US6145051A Moving sectors within a block of information in a flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 190 Expired
US6567307B1 Block management for mass storage Physics 186 Expired
US6081878A Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices Physics 183 Expired
US6125435A Alignment of cluster address to block addresses within a semiconductor non-volatile mass storage memory Physics 183 Expired
US6751155B2 Non-volatile memory control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 173 Expired
US6141249A Organization of blocks within a nonvolatile memory unit to effectively decrease sector write operation time Physics 171 Expired
US5924113A Direct logical block addressing flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 170 Expired
US6076137A Method and apparatus for storing location identification information within non-volatile memory devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 163 Expired
US6034897A Space management for managing high capacity nonvolatile memory Physics 161 Expired
US6202138A Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices Physics 158 Expired
US6115785A Direct logical block addressing flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 156 Expired
US6172906A Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices Physics 151 Expired
US5928370A Method and apparatus for verifying erasure of memory blocks within a non-volatile memory structure Physics 150 Expired
US6978342B1 Moving sectors within a block of information in a flash memory mass storage architecture Physics 147 Expired
US6374337B1 Data pipelining method and apparatus for memory control circuit Physics 146 Expired
US6223308A Identification and verification of a sector within a block of mass STO rage flash memory Physics 145 Expired
US6393513B1 Identification and verification of a sector within a block of mass storage flash memory Physics 144 Expired
US6040997A Flash memory leveling architecture having no external latch Physics 132 Expired

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