ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,193, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for SLC copyback operations" was invented by Gulzar Kathawala (Fremont, Calif.), Ming Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Yogesh Wakchaure (Folsom, Calif.), Jonathan de Vries (Folsom, Calif.), David Carlton (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yushin Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Taehun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Wanik Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method is performed by processing circuitry of a storage d...