US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on May 20 for "Firmware updating method and data storage device utilizing the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,236, issued on May 20, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Firmware updating method and data storage device utilizing the same" was invented by Te-Kai Wang (Hsinchu County, 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. The memory controller executes a first firmware, sets a value of a lock indicator to a first value in the first firmware, and sequentially receive a first firmware update command a second firmware update command. In response to the first firmware update command, the memory controller receives file of a second firmware. When deter...