ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,029, issued on June 10, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller for performing read reclaim operation, memory system including the same, and operating method of memory controller" was invented by Seung Gu Ji (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Young Gyun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system comprises a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller configured to manage a first count, a second count, and a sum value for each of the plurality of memory blocks, the first count being the number of performed random read operations, the second count b...