ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,168, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Jhubei, Taiwan).
"Data storage device and data protection method thereof" was invented by Jieh-Hsin Chien (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yi-Hua Pao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data protection method applied to a data storage device including a volatile memory and a non-volatile flash memory is provided. The data protection method includes, executing a protection program after the data storage device is coupled to a host, to perform following steps: shielding a refresh command from the host; monitoring a working voltage of the data storage device through a voltage...