ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,306, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Virtualized parallel access architecture for flash memory" was invented by Shiuan-Hao Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller for controlling a flash memory includes a parallel accessing control circuit. The parallel accessing control circuit is coupled to a command address (CA) bus, a first data bus, and a second data bus that are respectively coupled to a plurality of first memory units and a plurality of second memory units of the flash memory. The parallel accessing control circuit includes a CA sequence...