A-Data Assigned Patent

Adata Technology Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,909,846), developed by Chang Li-Pin, Banciao, Taiwan, Chen Ming-Dar, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Huang Chien-Ting, Sinjhuang, Taiwan, for a “memory storage device and control method thereof.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A control method of a memory storage device for writing an updated data from a host to the memory storage device is provided. The memory storage device provides storage space which is divided into a plurality of physical blocks to access the updated data. The control method includes the following steps: first, determining whether the updated data is a hot data or not; finally, storing the less updated data which is not th hot data into the physical block which has the higher erase counts according to the result of above determination.“

The patent application was filed on January 21, 2009 (12/320,14).