ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,143, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Byung Jun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Taek Gyu Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Kyoung Ku Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a replay protected memory block; and a memory controller for, as a submission command requesting access to the replay protected memory block is received from an external host including a host memory having a plurality of Physical Region Pages (PRPs), acquiring a host replay p...