US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 2 for "Storage device managing metadata memory blocks each storing metadata units, and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,768, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Storage device managing metadata memory blocks each storing metadata units, and method of operating the same" was invented by Cheon Ok Jeong (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may execute an erase operation on a first metadata memory block. The storage device may copy, to the first metadata memory block, all or some of metadata units stored in a second metadata memory block that is a metadata memory block on which the erase operation is to be executed after the erase operation is executed on the first metadata memory block."...