US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Dec. 2 for "Flash memory controller, operating method of flash memory controller, and storage device capable of performing different dimension error correction to protect data" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,749, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Flash memory controller, operating method of flash memory controller, and storage device capable of performing different dimension error correction to protect data" was invented by Tsung-Chieh Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory controller, to be coupled between a host device and a flash memory module, includes an error correction code (ECC) circuit. The ECC circuit performs a wordline-dimensional ECC operation upon specific data, sent from the host device to form a super block stored within the flash memory module, to...