US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Nov. 11 for "Flash memory controller, storage device, and address mapping method of flash memory controller" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,483, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Flash memory controller, storage device, and address mapping method of flash memory controller" was invented by Chien-Ting Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Chi Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chin-Hung Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory controller includes a specific buffer and a processor. The specific buffer allocates a cache space. The processor receives a specific host address sent from the host device, reads and loads a corresponding address pointer mapping table from the flash memory into the cache space acco...