US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Feb. 24 for "Storage device for managing map data in a host and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,250, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device for managing map data in a host and operation method thereof" was invented by Ki Young Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a storage device capable of reducing formation time of map data required for an HPB read operation and stored in a host, and an operation method thereof. The operation method of a memory controller includes performing a host performance booster (HPB) read operation of reading data from a memory in response to a read request from a first external device using map data stored in a ...