ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,078, issued on June 30, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including test storage block and computing system" was invented by Chang Han Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, the operating performance of a storage device is measured through allocation of a test storage block of a size different from a preset size of a normal storage block of a memory, and whether to change the size of a normal storage block is determined. Therefore, it is possible to improve the operating performance of the storage device and improve the data proces...