US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Feb. 10 for "Control method of memory device and associated flash memory controller" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,336, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Control method of memory device and associated flash memory controller" was invented by Tsung-Chieh Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller, wherein the flash memory controller is configured to access a flash memory module, and the flash memory module includes a plurality of blocks. The control method includes the steps of: obtaining a read count of a specific block; obtaining a time stamp of the specific block, wherein the time stamp is a write time of the sp...