US Patent Issued to SK hynix on March 3 for "Memory controller for managing bad block, method of operating memory controller, and storage device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,695, issued on March 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller for managing bad block, method of operating memory controller, and storage device" was invented by Bu Yong Song (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of planes each including a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller configured to group the memory blocks into a plurality of super blocks, each including memory blocks belonging to two or more planes operating in parallel, change mapping information so that a bad block included in a super block to be allo...