ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,317, issued on April 15, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Memory controller, bridge device and method for transferring command data between memory controllers" was invented by Chen-Hao Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Shih-Hsiang Shen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hui-Lin Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge device includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller includes a first transmission interface. The second controller includes a second transmission interface. The first transmission interface and the second transmission interface are flash memory interfaces. In a pro...