US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on April 15 for "Method and memory device for performing wear leveling" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,332, issued on April 15, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and memory device for performing wear leveling" was invented by Wei-Cheng Su (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Hsiang Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiang-Lan Lung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides a method and a memory device for performing wear leveling in a memory device. The method includes: receiving data to be written transmitted by a host in the memory device; predicting the data to be written as a first type of data or a second type of data; referencing an erase count table in an erase count tab...