ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,490, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"PV distribution variation detection and data reclaim policy" was invented by Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Meysam Asadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system and method for data reclaim which reads data from a memory using a preset voltage threshold based on a page type being read; records an initial set of program voltages for successful reads of the data from the memory; determines an initial distribution of the initial set of program voltages, over time subsequent sets of the program voltages for successful reads of the...