US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on June 17 for "Flash memory module testing method and associated memory controller and memory device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,168, issued on June 17, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Flash memory module testing method and associated memory controller and memory device" was invented by Chiu-Han Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Ting Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a test upon a flash memory module includes: performing data writing upon a plurality of first blocks of a first group in the flash memory module; reading the plurality of first blocks of the first group to determine whether there is any abnormal block in the plurality of first blocks and generating a first test result; after ...