US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Sept. 15 for "Non-volatile memory controller and method for controlling a non-volatile memory" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,129, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

"Non-volatile memory controller and method for controlling a non-volatile memory" was invented by Ting-Hsing Wang (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reliability control technology for non-volatile memory is shown. A non-volatile memory has a plurality of blocks. For each block, the processor records a time stamp about programming of at least one page in the block. The processor performs a reliability check on the target block that corresponds to a time stamp exceeding a critical time limit and, if the reliability check shows that t...