US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 18 for "Control method of flash memory controller and associated flash memory controller and storage device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,202, issued on March 18, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Control method of flash memory controller and associated flash memory controller and storage device" was invented by Kun-Cheng Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yen-Yu Jou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller, wherein the flash memory controller is configured to access a flash memory module, the flash memory module comprises a plurality of blocks, and the control method comprising: receiving a settling command from a host device; in response to the settling com...