US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on April 14 for "Flash memory controller and flash memory access method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,283, issued on April 14, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

"Flash memory controller and flash memory access method" was invented by Duen yih Teng (Jhubei City, Taiwan) and Mao ruei Li (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory controller and a flash memory access method are provided. The flash memory controller comprises a decoder. The decoder is configured to perform a decoding operation based on a NxM base matrix of a LDPC code to decode the read information from a flash memory. The decoder comprises a controller, a variable node (VN) unit, and a check node (CN) unit. The controller...