US Patent Issued to SK hynix on April 7 for "Data storage system and method of managing metadata thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,497, issued on April 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Data storage system and method of managing metadata thereof" was invented by Hyun Chul Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jung Min Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a data storage system. The data storage system may include a plurality of memory devices, each including a metadata area and a data storage area, and a memory pool manager configured to allocate partial data storage areas of data storage areas to a plurality of host devices, respectively, in response to data storage area allocation requests...