US Patent Issued to SK hynix on April 8 for "Computer system performing garbage collection and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,629, issued on April 8, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Computer system performing garbage collection and method of operating the same" was invented by Jeong Ho Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Kang Rak Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an electronic device. According to the present technology, a host device may include a garbage collection controller and an idle time processor. The garbage collection controller may provide, to a storage device, a health information request command for requesting health information including a host write amoun...