ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,168, issued on April 14, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Operation methods of memory systems, memory controllers, memory systems, and storage mediums" was invented by Yin Xu (Wuhan, China), Youxin He (Wuhan, China) and Jiangwei Shi (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of operating a memory system, a memory controller, a memory system, and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of semiconductor chips. The method includes: obtaining an erase count and a hot id of each virtual block, determining a first virtual block from which data is ...