ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,966, issued on March 17, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Control unit, data storage device, host device and computing system" was invented by Jung Min Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Byung Il Koh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the present disclosure, processing order flags are set in flits transmitted and received between a host device and a data storage device, and in-order processing or out-of-order processing is controlled based on the processing order flags. Therefore, it is possible to provide measures capable of easily preventing occurrence of an erro...