US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Memory controller for controlling background operation and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,143, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller for controlling background operation and operation method thereof" was invented by Sangsoo Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minjeong Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a health grade determining circuit to determine a health grade of a memory block based on a combination of an error detecting result of data read from at least one page of the block and block information related to a degree of degradation of the block, and an IO ratio setting circuit. The IO ratio setting...