US Patent Issued to SK hynix on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for processing read command in zoned namespace based on deterioration state of memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,390, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for processing read command in zoned namespace based on deterioration state of memory device" was invented by Hee Chan Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Bo Kyeong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yu Jung Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Han Sol Rhee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a memory system, including a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks that have been allocated to a plurality of zoned namespaces (ZNSs), and a controller configured to, when a ZNS on ...