US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on April 29 for "Flash memory controller that can quickly enter power saving mode after entering idle state, associated flash memory device, and associated control method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,975, issued on April 29, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Flash memory controller that can quickly enter power saving mode after entering idle state, associated flash memory device, and associated control method" was invented by Wen-Sheng Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of a memory device includes: controlling a flash memory controller to transmit a command to a flash memory module; determining whether the flash memory controller is in an idle state; in response to the flash memory controller being in the idle state, determining whether an idle time of the idle state...