US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Feb. 11 for "Memory controller and method for controlling output of debug messages" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,856, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Memory controller and method for controlling output of debug messages" was invented by Hong-Ren Fang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hao-Hsuan Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller coupled to a memory device for accessing the memory device and includes a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is coupled to the UART and configured to control access operations of the memory device. The microprocessor is configured to perform an interrupt service routine in res...