US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 29 for "Method of operating memory system and memory system performing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,971, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Method of operating memory system and memory system performing the same" was invented by Changho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eun-Kyung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a memory system disclosed, whether a first condition is satisfied is determined. The first condition is associated with free blocks and garbage collection (GC) target blocks from among a plurality of memory blocks. In response to the first condition being satisfied, a size of a ...