ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,488, issued on April 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and method of operating the same" was invented by Jeong Ho Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. The method of operating a storage device may include receiving, from an external device, a request to change a set value used for an operation of monitoring an auxiliary power supply of the storage device, changing the set value in response to the request, and performing the operation based on the changed set value."

The patent was filed on Se...