US Patent Issued to SK hynix on June 24 for "Storage device for storing address information of target page with overwritten dummy data and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,106, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device for storing address information of target page with overwritten dummy data and operating method thereof" was invented by Tae Yeon Hwang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Kyung Hoon Lee (Icheon, South Korea) and Sung Hun Jeon (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may search for a target page among pages included in a first memory block of a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of pages, and when an uncorrectable error occurs while reading data stored in the target page, may overwrite dummy data int...