ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,265, issued on June 3.

"Memory controller performing garbage collection, memory system, method, and storage medium thereof" was invented by Ruiyang Zhang (Wuhan, China), Qi Hu (Wuhan, China) and Youxin He (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, a method for operating a memory controller is disclosed. The method includes determining a total used amount of a user data storage space of a memory device. The method also includes determining whether a garbage collection (GC) triggering condition is satisfied based on the total used amount of the user data storage space. The method further includes determining whethe...