US Patent Issued to SK hynix on April 29 for "Apparatus and method for sanitizing a shared memory device or a memory expander" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,968, issued on April 29, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for sanitizing a shared memory device or a memory expander" was invented by Jung Min Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea), Sun Woong Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Byung Il Koh (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Min Ho Ha (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes at least one memory device that includes memory areas. The memory system includes a device allocation manager and security erase circuitry. The device allocation manager determines which of the memory areas is allocated or released based on a request ...