ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,102, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device, controller, memory system and method of operating the same" was invented by Jin Sub Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes a method of operating a controller that controls a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The method includes receiving a read request for data included in any one memory block among the plurality of memory blocks from a host, and controlling the semiconductor memory device to read data corresponding to the read request...