ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,059, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Method of operating a memory controller, memory controller, and memory system" was invented by Xiao Shao (Wuhan, China) and Qian Sun (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method operating a memory controller. In response to a data write instruction, the method may include determining a first memory cell block into which data is to be written, the first memory cell block including a first memory cell page programmed and a second memory cell page unprogrammed. In response to the first memory cell block ...