ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,611, issued on April 7, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Memory system and memory management method thereof" was invented by Pao-Chen Ko (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system including a memory; an encoding management circuit; and a memory access instruction decoding unit is provided. The memory access instruction decoding unit is configured to receive an instruction from a bus, identify a bad block in the memory, determine whether the instruction indicates access to the bad block. When the instruction indicates writing data to the bad block, the memory access instruction...