ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,954, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Tae Hoon Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device capable of improving performance by changing a period of a scan operation, and an operating method of the same. The storage device may include a memory including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller configured to set a plurality of scan trigger groups having different scan trigger periods, perform a scan operation on the plurality of memory blocks, assign each of the plurality of memory bl...