US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Sept. 2 for "Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for garbage collection with determined host-address to flash-address mapping (H2F) sub-tables in flash memory device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,886, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for garbage collection with determined host-address to flash-address mapping (H2F) sub-tables in flash memory device" was invented by Cheng-Yu Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention introduces a method for garbage collection (GC) in a flash memory device, performed by a processing unit, includes: finding a source block (SBLK) associated with a hit accumulated valid page count (VPC) that is the first one exceeding a total number of physical pages in one de...