ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,975, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device for supporting dynamic allocation of memory and method of operating the same" was invented by Tae Ho Lim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ie Ryung Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Dong Sop Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a storage device for supporting dynamic allocation of memory and a method of operating the same. The storage device may include a plurality of memory dies, a state detector configured to detect respective memory states of the plurality of memory dies, a memory information storage...