US Patent Issued to SK hynix on March 31 for "Storage device updating attribute of data and operating method of the storage device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,392, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device updating attribute of data and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Jin Woo Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may write data to a memory as requested by an external device. Subsequently, the storage device may update an attribute of the data based on an increment of an average program-erase cycle of the memory and whether the data has been overwritten. The attribute of the data may be one of a plurality of candidate attributes and the plurality of candidate attributes may inclu...