JMicron Technology Assigned Patent

JMicron Technology Corp., Hsinchu County, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,144,217) developed by Lin, Shih-Ling, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for “data protection method and associated storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention provides a data protection method and storage device. The data protection method includes: (A): during an initial period after the storage device is connected to a host, detecting the storage device and determining whether the storage device needs to be performed with data protection; (B): when the storage device needs to be performed with data protection in Step (A), modifying a predetermined writing destination that the host writes data to a storage unit of the storage device, to make the data from the host be written to another writing destination rather than being written to said writing destination; or writing the data from the host into a control chip or a bridge chip of an inner memory or an inner register, rather than writing the data from the host into the storage device; and (C): reporting to the host that the writing operation is completed.”

The patent application was filed on October 1, 2019 (16/589,162).