US Patent Issued to SK hynix, Sogang University Research and Business Development Foundation on June 24 for "Key-value based data storage device and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,860, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Sogang University Research and Business Development Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Key-value based data storage device and operation method thereof" was invented by Seungjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changgyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Inhyuk Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Woo Suk Chung (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key-value (KV) based data storage device configured to process one or more range query commands includes a first table, summary data, a Log-Structured merge (LSM) tree area ...