US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 12 for "Storage device migrating user data stored in memory die in an unusable state" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,510, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device migrating user data stored in memory die in an unusable state" was invented by Jae Il Lee (Icheon, South Korea), Dong Wook Kim (Icheon, South Korea) and Duck Joo Lee (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may group a plurality of memory dies into M memory die groups, and migrate, when a first memory die in a first memory die group among the M memory die groups is determined to be in an unusable state, user data stored in user data blocks of the first memory die to a first overprovisioning block group. The firs...