ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,335, issued on April 15, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Storage device" was invented by Lee Hyun Kwon (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller configured to move first data from a single level cell (SLC) memory block to a first memory block having a target density lower than a maximum density based on a waiting time and to move second data from the SLC memory block to a memory block having the maximum density based on the waiting time."
The patent was filed on April 21, 2023, under App...