US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for performing data retention management of memory device with aid of pre-shutdown control" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,088, issued on May 20, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for performing data retention management of memory device with aid of pre-shutdown control" was invented by Tsung-Chieh Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing data retention management of a memory device with aid of pre-shutdown control and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: receiving a predetermined host command from a host device; in response to the predetermined host command, performing a re-programming procedure on the NV memory, for enhancing data storage reliabi...