ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,029, issued on March 17, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Hashing based method for NAND data inversion" was invented by Pengfei Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and associated memory system for randomizing memory storage data. The method and system, at a time for storing user data, generate a meta data sequence having an inversion seed bit determined from a hash function specifying inversion seeds for different pages of data to be stored in a memory at different physical addresses having respective program erase counts; receive at a data invert...