ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,690, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Memory system" was invented by Wan-Jun Roh (Goyang, South Korea), Hyung-Sup Kim (Yongin, South Korea) and Hyung-Sik Won (Cheongju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system may improve the endurance and performance of a plurality of memories included in the memory system mounted on a server system or a data processing system. For example, the memory system may throttle energy of a first memory using a second memory having a different characteristic from the first memory, control accesses to a memory region according to a refresh cycle, and ...