Gowin Semiconductor Assigned Patent

Gowin Semiconductor Corporation, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, has been assigned a patent (10,521,150) developed by Kow, San-Ta, Zhu, Jinghui, and Chopperla, Diwakar, Guangdong, China, for “data processing method and device for nonvolatile memory and storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure provides a data processing method and a device for a nonvolatile memory and a storage medium. The data processing method comprises: performing a full erase operation on the nonvolatile memory if a full erase operation command is received, such that the nonvolatile memory enters an initial state, wherein the initial state refers to a state in which all operations performed on the nonvolatile memory are valid, in the initial state, storing a data if the data is written in the memory is detected, wherein the data comprises a flag information, detecting the flag information if a data readout command triggered by a user is received, and identifying that the nonvolatile memory is in a default state and prohibiting the user from reading the data stored in the nonvolatile memory if the flag information is detected as an unreadable flag information.”

The patent application was filed on July 5, 2018 (16/028,406).