ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,570, issued on June 2, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for reading data stored in flash memory by referring to binary digit distribution characteristics of bit sequences read from flash memory" was invented by Tsung-Chieh Yang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reading data stored in a flash memory includes at least the following steps: controlling the flash memory to perform a plurality of read operations upon a plurality of memory cells included in the flash memory; obtaining a plurality of bit sequences read from the memory cells, respectively, where...