Via Technologies Assigned Patent

Via Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,465,538) developed by Lai, Yi-Lin, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “flash memory control chip and data storage device and flash memory control method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A flash memory control method, storing a logical-to-physical address mapping relationship between a host and a flash memory and a root table in the flash memory and providing a non-volatile storage area storing a root table pointer. A mapping relationship pointer is set forth in the root table to show where the logical-to-physical address mapping relationship is stored in the flash memory. The root table pointer points to the root table stored in the flash memory. In response to a power restoration request issued from the host, the flash memory is accessed based on the root table pointer and thereby the root table is read and the logical-to-physical address mapping relationship is retrieved from the flash memory based on the mapping relationship pointer set forth in the root table.“

The patent application was filed on August 27, 2014 (14/469,703).