US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on June 10 for "Flash memory controller and associated control method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,051, issued on June 10, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Flash memory controller and associated control method" was invented by Ming-Yu Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Hong-Ren Fang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsin-Ying Teng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Min Yen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a flash memory controller configured to access a flash memory module. The flash memory controller includes a transmission interface circuit, a buffer memory and a microprocessor. The transmission interface circuit is coupled to a host device, and the transmission interface circuit i...