ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,987, issued on July 22, was assigned to PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Miaoli, Taiwan).

"Memory management method, memory storage device and memory control circuit unit" was invented by Yen Chen Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: activating a data merge operation; selecting a plurality of first-type physical units and a second-type physical unit from a rewritable non-volatile memory module to execute the data merge operation, wherein a data capacity of each first-type physical unit is less than a data ...