ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,637, issued on June 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Data storage device for guaranteeing that system resources meet performance requirements, method of operating the same, and memory controller for the same" was invented by Seon Ju Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Seung Geol Baek (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Yoo (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Dong Kyu Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include a plurality of system resources, a buffer memory device and a memory controller. The buffer memory device may include a buffer memory allotted to the system resources...