US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on March 31 for "Controller and storage device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,488, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Controller and storage device" was invented by Hye Mi Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is provided to include: a memory including a plurality of storage blocks, each storage block including pages including a valid page to which valid data is written and a snapshot page that stores data corresponding to or associated with data in the valid page; and a controller in communication with the memory and configured to i) generate a valid segment including valid address data indicating an address of the valid page an...