US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Nov. 4 for "Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for configuring current block to program data" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,694, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for configuring current block to program data" was invented by Cheng-Yu Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention introduces a method for configuring a current block to program data, performed by a processing unit, which includes: dividing storage space of a flash module into a static area and a dynamic area; entering a first mode to obtain a first empty SB from the dynamic area and erase the first empty SB to configure the first empty SB as a non-SLC block; a...