US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 22 for "Apparatus and method for improving data input/output performance of storage" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,993, issued on July 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for improving data input/output performance of storage" was invented by Hee Chan Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young Ho Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Gi Gyun Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory device including at least one storage region; and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller separates write data input from an external device from metadata associated with data stored in the memory device. Based on an operation state of the at least one stora...