US Patent Issued to SK hynix on April 29 for "Data storage apparatus and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,979, issued on April 29, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Data storage apparatus and operating method thereof" was invented by Jin Pyo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory device including a dump region configured to temporarily store data according to a state of applied power; and a controller configured to monitor health information of the dump region of the nonvolatile memory device, generate environmental information corresponding to a power loss protection (PLP) operation based on the health information, and share the environm...