ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,521, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory system related to selectively storing data and a corresponding map, and an operating method of the memory system" was invented by Sung Hun Jeon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Tae Yeon Hwang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Kyung Hoon Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Sung Kwan Hong (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to store write data corresponding to a write request in a first memory block. When...