US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Feb. 3 for "Storage device controlling garbage collection or wear leveling on the basis of timestamp, and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,298, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device controlling garbage collection or wear leveling on the basis of timestamp, and method thereof" was invented by Hoe Seung Jung (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Joo Young Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may get a timestamp when a timestamp getting condition is satisfied, may determine a retention time of a target super memory block according to time information calibrated on the basis of the timestamp, and may determine whether to select the target super memory block as a victim memory block for a target...