ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,512, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Jhubei, Taiwan).
"Data storage device and non-volatile memory control method" was invented by Yi-Kang Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory life-extension technology is shown. Based on two values related to the write amplification factor of non-volatile memory, the controller coupled to the non-volatile memory adjusts the execution frequency of the wear-leveling migration performed on the non-volatile memory. By executing the wear-leveling migration, the controller uses the first block, which is a spare block, to store the data of th...