ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,140, issued on April 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Group history read method to improve quality of service of solid state drives" was invented by Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Pengfei Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and associated memory system for reading data from a memory. The method reads data from a memory group of the memory; calculates a group divergence metric for read biases used to read the data from the memory group; when the group divergence metric meets a threshold, partitions the memory group into a first sub-group and a second sub-group, wherein the f...