US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on April 15 for "Data storage device and method for determining buffer size of the data storage device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,330, issued on April 15, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data storage device and method for determining buffer size of the data storage device" was invented by Po-Lin Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes multiple memory blocks which include one or more spare memory blocks not written with data and one or more predetermined memory blocks that are configured as a buffer for receiving data from a host device. The memory controller obtains a total number of remaining erasable count of the memory b...