ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,747, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system for reading distributed firmware and an operation method thereof" was invented by Chang Han Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes firmware distributed and stored in plural locations. The controller is configured to read the firmware from a different location selected among the plural locations whenever the controller loads the firmware distributed and stored in the memory device."

The patent was filed on Sept. 26, 2024, under Appl...