ST-Ericsson SA, (merged with STMicroelectronics), Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,183,128) developed by Das Purkayastha, Saugata, Bangalore, India, for a "device controller for a memory device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a method for controlling writing of data to a data [...]