US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Sept. 22 for "Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for handling garbage collection process" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,239, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for handling garbage collection process" was invented by Po-Wei Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention introduces a method for handling a garbage collection (GC) process, performed by a processing unit of a flash controller, to include: detecting that a portable storage device is inserted into a host equipment; obtaining a maximum transmission bandwidth of a host interface (I/F); determining that a transmission bandwidth of a flash I/F is highe...