US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Aug. 12 for "Method for controlling flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,524, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for controlling flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device" was invented by Kuan-Chieh Peng (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Yi Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for controlling a flash memory module. The flash memory module includes a plurality of dies, each die includes a plurality of blocks, each block includes a plurality of pages, and the method includes the steps of: selecting a super block, wherein the super block includes a plurality of first...