ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,723, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for accelerating logical-to-physical address lookup operations in symmetric multi-processing environment and flash memory controller using the same" was invented by Cheng Yi (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Kaihong Wang (Zhubei City, Taiwan), I-Ling Tseng (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Hsiu Chen Yen (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller is provided, which includes a processor having a plurality of processing cores, and a lookup acceleration circuit. The lookup acceleration circuit includes a message processing circuit and ...