ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,636, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Storage device, host device, and method of operating the same" was invented by Jeong Ho Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a host device according to the present technology includes determining an area to be tested among a mapped area and an unmapped area included in a storage area of a storage device, generating a test request corresponding to the determined area, and transmitting the generated test request to the storage device."
The patent was filed on June 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/748,097...