US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on April 29 for "Data storage device and non-volatile memory control method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,988, issued on April 29, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Jhubei, Taiwan).

"Data storage device and non-volatile memory control method" was invented by Hsu-Ping Ou (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chien-Hung Lee (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for accurate communication between a non-volatile memory and its controller. The controller accesses a storage area of the non-volatile memory through data lines, wherein the controller transmits a command through the data lines to access the storage area of the non-volatile memory. The command is further returned from the non-volatile memory to the controller through the data...