ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,537, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for updating host-address to flash-address mapping table" was invented by Cheng-Yu Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention introduces a method for updating a host-address to flash-address mapping table, performed by a processing unit, to include: allocating a temporary flash-address to host-address mapping (F2H) region in a random access memory (RAM) for storing an F2H table corresponding to a current block; setting a flushing number according to informati...