US Patent Issued to SK hynix on June 17 for "Memory system, memory controller, and method for operating same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,778, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system, memory controller, and method for operating same" was invented by Min Jun Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyoung Pil Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system, a memory controller, and a method for operating the same. Garbage collection is performed with regard to the memory device on the basis of a first amount of time and a second amount of time, the first amount of time being a period of time between triggering of first garbage collection and trigg...