ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,889, issued on July 15, was assigned to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Validity distribution for performance uniformity" was invented by David J. Pelster (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Mark Golez (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Daniel R. McLeran (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Nathan Koch (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Paul Ruby (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and controller for operating a memory system in communication with a host. The method and controller logically arrange a sequence of reclaim sub-groups within a memory device. The method and controller process the reclaim sub-groups acco...