US Patent Issued to SK hynix on April 22 for "Memory system and apparatus for evicting cold data from volatile memory and storing the evicted cold data into the non-volatile memory" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,304, issued on April 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system and apparatus for evicting cold data from volatile memory and storing the evicted cold data into the non-volatile memory" was invented by Hyeong Tak Ji (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system may include: a non-volatile memory device, a volatile memory device suitable for defining, as cold data, data stored in a word line, on which a refresh operation is performed a number of times greater than a reference number among a plurality of word lines coupled to a volatile memory cell array, and evicting the cold...