US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on May 12 for "Controller and storage device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,628, issued on May 12, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Controller and storage device" was invented by Baek Gyun Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data storage devices and controllers are disclosed. In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, an occupied logical memory address for loading an overlay code stored in a memory into a buffer memory is allocated and set in advance, and the loading of the overlay code is performed using the occupied logical memory address. Therefore, the overlay code can be loaded without allocating in advance a buffer area of the buffer memory, and thus th...