ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,139, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory system and operating method thereof" was invented by Sung Jin Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a non-volatile memory device structured to store data; and a controller in communication with the non-volatile memory device to control writing data in, and reading data from, the non-volatile memory device, and including a memory, wherein the controller is configured to check, in response to a status data transmission request provided from an external device, whether an update flag indicating any updat...