ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,083, issued on June 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory system and operating method of a controller of the memory system" was invented by Jin Woo Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jin Woong Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ik Sung Oh (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hui Jae Yu (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes memory blocks and a controller. The controller configured to perform a wear levelling operation on the memory blocks based on a reference count table and an erase count table."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/958,670.

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