US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on Feb. 3 for "Flash memory and wear leveling method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,179, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Flash memory and wear leveling method thereof" was invented by Masaru Yano (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takehiro Kaminaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory that improves the reliability of data stored in a memory cell array is provided in the disclosure. A wear leveling method of the flash memory of the disclosure includes the following operation. The memory cell array includes multiple sectors, the method includes the following operation. A region is set for storing a first flag and a second flag i...