ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,941, issued on June 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Host device for controlling read-ahead operation, method of operating host device, and computing system including host device" was invented by Chi Je Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Soo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyeong Jae Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of operating a host device. The method may include, a determining that read requests for data in a first file are successive, in response to the determination that read requests are successive, generating a first read command tha...