US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 21 for "Storage device including volatile memory and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,961, issued on July 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device including volatile memory and operating method thereof" was invented by Dong-Gun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Nam Hyun Yun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyeongju Na (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dong Sop Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device comprising a volatile memory comprising a plurality of physical areas, a compression operation circuit configured to compress write data at a first rate to generate first compressed data, and a control operation circuit configured to divide the plurality of p...