ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,413, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for performing data fragmentation reduction control of memory device in predetermined communications architecture with aid of fragmentation information detection, and associated computer-readable medium" was invented by Po-Yi Shih (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing data fragmentation reduction control of a memory device in a predetermined communications architecture with aid of fragmentation information detection, associated apparatus and computer-readable medium are provided. The met...