ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,121, issued on July 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Data storage device for unified management of system data and method of operating the same" was invented by Se Joong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller may allocate a system region. The memory controller may control the memory device to store system data in the system region without distinguishing between the plurality of memory regions in the system region based on a type of the system data. Therefore, the memory controller may ra...