ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,100, issued on March 25, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data storage device and data processing method for arranging a write order of writing data based on a logical data order of reading the data" was invented by Chi-Hung Cheng (Taipei, 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. In response to a write command received from a host device, the memory controller performs a write operation to write predetermined data into the memory device. In the write operation, the memory controller selects one from multiple superblocks as a first targ...