US Patent Issued to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions on July 28 for "Application of data descriptor maps in management of firmware control data" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,845, issued on July 28, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Application of data descriptor maps in management of firmware control data" was invented by Sam Povilus (Boulder, Colo.), Cody Dinges (Longmont, Colo.) and Karl Heichelheim (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to managing firmware control data stored in a memory device of an electronic device. The electronic device obtains a current data descriptor map (DDM) corresponding to a current version of a firmware program, and identifies, in the memory device, a prior DDM and a prior control data st...