US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 9 for "Memory controller controlling read operations for prefetching data and storage device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,555, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory controller controlling read operations for prefetching data and storage device including the same" was invented by Hyun Jin Chung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hee Cheol Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Byoung Min Jin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller capable of improving the performance of a read operation may include: a read command generator for generating read commands instructing a memory device to read, in advance, data to be read-requested from a host; a cache memory for storing data read from the ...