ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,224, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Flash-based storage device and copy-back operation method thereof" was invented by Johndongjun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jiho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Myoungsoo Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory device of a flash-based storage device includes a plurality of flash buses and a plurality of flash memory chips, and each flash bus is connected to two or more flash memory chips among the flash memory chips. A front-end includes a processing core, and a plurality of flash contro...