US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on April 22 for "Memory operation method and memory device for data movement" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,665, issued on April 22, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Memory operation method and memory device for data movement" was invented by Po-Sheng Chou (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsiang-Yu Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yan-Wen Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory operation method, comprising: when a first super block of a memory device is a open block (or in programming state), obtaining a first read count of one of a plurality of first memory blocks in the first super block, wherein the first read count is a number of times that data of one of the first memory blocks is r...