Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
1,086 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Silicon Motion Technology Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,086
1,086 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
88
Against 92 in 2024 and 88 in 2023
Applications published
1,170
58 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology455
Basic communication processes25
Digital communication6
Audio-visual technology3
Measurement3
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy1
Telecommunications1
Semiconductors1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
SILICON MOTION INC. a subsidiary
TW, as the owner printed on each patent. 44 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in CN, printed in JP)
584 publishedSilicon Motion, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in TW
586 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,249 | Memory controller, solid-state storage device, and method for monitoring link signal quality of solid-state storage device | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,229 | Method for accessing flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,092 | Display system, terminal device and terminal device control method | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,058 | Method for performing read-disturbance detection of memory device with aid of hashing-based address mapping for data integrity control, and associated apparatus | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,505,242 | Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for programming and recovering protected data | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,498,882 | Method for reading data from flash memory and related memory controller and storage system thereof | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,498,852 | Method and apparatus for performing storage space management of memory device with aid of dynamic block configuration | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,489,465 | Method and apparatus for performing data access control for host device | Basic communication processes | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,487,749 | Flash memory controller, operating method of flash memory controller, and storage device capable of performing different dimension error correction to protect data | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Nov 11, 2025 | 12,468,483 | Flash memory controller, storage device, and address mapping method of flash memory controller | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390225 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING EXECUTION OF HOST READ COMMANDS | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0383999 | METHOD FOR ACCELERATING LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL ADDRESS LOOKUP OPERATIONS IN SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT AND FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER USING THE SAME | Computer technology | Silicon Motion, Inc. |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0383962 | FLASH MEMORY SCHEME CAPABLE OF DETECTING ERRORS OCCURRING IN SET-FEATURE AND GET-FEATURE OPERATIONS WHEN SIGNAL QUALITY IS POOR | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0348226 | WRITE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM FOR ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND LIFESPAN OF QUAD-LEVEL CELL FLASH MEMORY | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0328418 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND FLASH MEMORY ACCESS METHOD | Computer technology | Silicon Motion, Inc. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0328250 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND FLASH MEMORY ACCESS METHOD | Computer technology | Silicon Motion, Inc. |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0306857 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING RANDOMIZED DATA | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0306803 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING EXECUTIONS OF INPUT-OUTPUT COMMANDS | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0298739 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING HOST-ADDRESS TO FLASH-ADDRESS MAPPING TABLE | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
| Sep 18, 2025 | 2025/0291581 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE | Computer technology | SILICON MOTION INC. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 162 · Basic communication processes 9 · Measurement 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.