US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Feb. 17 for "Data programming method and related memory controller and data storage device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,626, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data programming method and related memory controller and data storage device" was invented by Tsung-Chieh Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data programming method for a flash memory includes: writing a write data to a page buffer of the flash memory; encoding the write data to generate first parity data corresponding to the write data, and writing the first parity data to the page buffer; while generating the first parity data, performing an error detection based on the write data and the first parity data to produce an error...