ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,817, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Miaoli, Taiwan).

"Memory management method, memory storage apparatus and memory control circuit unit" was invented by Shih-Jia Zeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen Yang Tang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chen-An Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Wang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wei Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a memory management method, a memory storage apparatus and a memory control circuit unit. The method includes: performing a first operation on a plurality of physical units to obtain a quality estimation parameter corresponding to the p...