US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 17 for "Data processing method for improving continuity of data corresponding to continuous logical addresses as well as avoiding excessively consuming service life of memory blocks and the associated data storage device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,866, issued on March 17, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data processing method for improving continuity of data corresponding to continuous logical addresses as well as avoiding excessively consuming service life of memory blocks and the associated data storage device" was invented by Yu-Ta Chen (Keelung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller maintains a write count for each sub-region of the memory device. When the memory controller has selected one or more sub-regions to perform a data rearrangement pr...