ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,882, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
"Control method of flash memory controller" was invented by Tzu-Yi Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller. The control method includes: after the flash memory controller is powered on, determining whether the flash memory controller encountered an abnormal power failure; if the flash memory controller encounters the abnormal power failure, determining a first block of a flash memory module having an open state; moving a portion of valid data within the fi...