ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,806, issued on March 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device searching for map segments stored in plurality of search engines, and method for operating storage device" was invented by Sung Jin Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include a plurality of search engines each capable of storing a plurality of map segments. Each of the map segments may indicate a respective mapping relationship between a logical address area and a physical address area. A search engine manager of the storage device may determine, from among map segments stored in the plurality ...