ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,756, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory system, operating method and controller" was invented by Xiaoyu Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kerem Akarvardar (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Rawan Naous (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system, an operating method and a controller are provided. The memory system comprises a memory array and a controller. The memory array comprises a probing memory block and a plurality of memory blocks. The controller is configured to perform; write a probing data to the probing memory block; detect a strength of the probing data fr...