ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,249, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Memory controller, solid-state storage device, and method for monitoring link signal quality of solid-state storage device" was invented by Chun-Cheng Lee (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring link signal quality of a solid-state storage device is provided. The method includes the following steps: utilizing a PCIe media access control (MAC) layer to trigger an error notification signal in response to an error occurring on data transmission on a PCIe bus between a host and the solid-state storage device; utilizing a ...