US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 12 for "Data storage device, operation method thereof, and storage system including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,740, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Data storage device, operation method thereof, and storage system including the same" was invented by Gun Wook Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include a storage including a plurality of memory blocks composed of system memory blocks for storing system data and user memory blocks for storing user data; and a controller configured to: control exchange of the system and user data with the storage in response to a request of a host device; and determine whether a start condition for performing a garbage coll...