US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on June 10 for "Data processing method for improving continuity of data corresponding to continuous logical addresses as well as avoiding excessively consuming service life of memory blocks and the associated data storage device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,043, issued on June 10, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data processing method for improving continuity of data corresponding to continuous logical addresses as well as avoiding excessively consuming service life of memory blocks and the associated data storage device" was invented by Yu-Ta Chen (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. When a sub-region of the memory device is selected based on a predetermined rule to perform a data rearrangement procedure, the memory controller determines whether the selected sub-region is a...