ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,104, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK Hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Inha University Research and Business Foundation (Incheon, South Korea).

"Data storage system including a data relocation circuit and a plurality of data storage devices and operation method thereof" was invented by Dayoung Lee (Incheon, South Korea) and Minseok Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage system includes an interface circuit configured to receive a read request for a chunk of data; a disk array including a plurality of main disks and a plurality of sub disks; an input/output control circuit configured to re...