US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on March 17 for "Non-volatile memory controller and control method with improved garbage collection technology" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,064, issued on March 17, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

"Non-volatile memory controller and control method with improved garbage collection technology" was invented by Yu-Ta Chen (Keelung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Garbage collection technology for non-volatile memory is shown. The processor starts valid data determination from a starting source block, selects a first logical-to-physical address mapping sub-table corresponding to a first valid data in the starting source block as a scan target, and scans the scan target to identify and collect valid data to be programmed to a destination ...