ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,440, issued on May 5, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Storage device and method of operating the same" was invented by Seung Han Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung Geun Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyeong Rak Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a nonvolatile storage area including a plurality of backup memory blocks each including a plurality of memory cells respectively connected to a plurality of word lines, and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile storage area to determine a target memory block in which data is to be stored among the...