ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,522, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device that executes migrating data and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Young Ho Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jae Youn Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin Woo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyeong Ju Na (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yoon Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jhu Yeong Jhin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may execute an operation of migrating valid data stored in one or more source data sections of a plurality of data sections to one or more destination data sec...