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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Via Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Zhongyi Gao, Beijing, CN;
Xiaoyu Yang, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/349 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device includes a flash memory array and a controller. The flash memory array includes a plurality of blocks. A minimal erase number of blocks have a minimal erase count in the plurality of blocks. When one of the minimal erase number of blocks is erased, the controller subtracts 1 from the minimal erase number.