ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,556, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system for storing meta data and operating method thereof" was invented by Yun Jung Yeom (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyo Jae Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of meta blocks and a plurality of normal blocks, and a controller for controlling the semiconductor memory device to generate meta data and store the generated meta data in a target meta bloc...