ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,996, issued on May 26, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Operating method of storage controller managing system memory blocks and storage device including the same" was invented by Jae Il Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hye Rim Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Byung Min Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present technology, a storage device includes a non-volatile memory device including a first memory block area and a second memory block area, and a storage controller configured to control the non-volatile memory device, determine a target erase cou...