US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 18 for "Method of handling trim command in flash memory and related memory controller and storage system thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,957, issued on March 18, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method of handling trim command in flash memory and related memory controller and storage system thereof" was invented by Tzu-Yi Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of handling trim commands in a flash memory is provided. The method comprises: receiving a trim command; modifying logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping entries of a L2P address mapping table according to the trim command; and storing trim information of the trim command into one of data blocks of the flash memory after modifying the L2P address ma...