US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Dec. 16 for "Method for reading data from flash memory and related memory controller and storage system thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,882, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for reading data from flash memory and related memory controller and storage system thereof" was invented by Chia-Chi Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yu Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reading data from a flash memory is provided. The method comprises: determining whether a host device is requesting a sequential read access to the flash memory; prior to receiving a first host read command issued by the host device, performing a read-ahead operation to read data from the flash memory according to a...