US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 11 for "Control device and memory system for managing storage region effectively" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,958, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Control device and memory system for managing storage region effectively" was invented by Dong Hun Jeong (Icheon-si, South Korea), Young Jo Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Bo Seok Jeong (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information on a free storage region may be managed by using a free storage region where compressed data is not stored among the physical storage regions storing compressed data in memory, and the movement of information on the free storage region may be managed by adding a free buffer in addition to a service queue ...