US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Jan. 28 for "Storage device caching update target data unit while entering down-time mode and operating method of the storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,461, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device caching update target data unit while entering down-time mode and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Byoung Min Jin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ku Ik Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Gyu Yeul Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The storage device may receive a condition for a down-time mode from the host. The storage device may cache, when the condition for the down-time mode is determined as satisfied, at least a part of update data units in the update cache. The storage device may proce...