US Patent Issued to SK hynix, Seoul National University R&DB Foundation on March 17 for "Data storage device performing data protection and host device supporting a data protection function using a program context" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,255, issued on March 17, was assigned to SK hynix inc. (Icheon, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Data storage device performing data protection and host device supporting a data protection function using a program context" was invented by Sanggu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jihong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device including a whitelist storing one or more program contexts for identifying input/output (I/O) operation, and a control circuit including a whitelist managing circuit configured to determine whether a write r...