ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,894, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage apparatus including word line grouping device and operating method thereof" was invented by Jae Yong Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Woo Suk Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage apparatus includes a memory device including a plurality of word lines; and a word line grouping device configured to group the plurality of word lines into a certain number of groups each serving as a memory block so that a read performance value, obtained by reading data of word lines included in a same group by using a representa...