US Patent Issued to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Management of erasable units of memory blocks in solid state drives" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,336, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Management of erasable units of memory blocks in solid state drives" was invented by Chaohong Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Ning Wu (Folsom, Calif.) and Cory Lappi (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed to managing data storage in a memory system. The memory system receives a host request for an erase operation on a first erasable unit of a first memory block. In response to the host request, the memory system identifies an unused erasable unit of a second memory block in the memory system, remaps the...