US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Nov. 3 for "Control method of flash memory controller and associated memory device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,405, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Control method of flash memory controller and associated memory device" was invented by Tzu-Yi Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller, wherein the flash memory controller is configured to access a flash memory module. The flash memory controller includes the steps of: selecting a block within the flash memory module, wherein the block is a blank block; writing data into the block; after the block is full, determining an amount of data from a host device ...