US Patent Issued to SK hynix on June 3 for "Storage device translating logical address on the basis of sequentiality of namespace, and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,261, issued on June 3, was assigned to SK hynix inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device translating logical address on the basis of sequentiality of namespace, and method thereof" was invented by Ku Ik Kwon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jun Han Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Byoung Min Jin (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Gyu Yeul Hong (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may generate mapping information between a plurality of memory regions and one or more namespaces. The storage device may record information on empty memory regions among the plurality of memory regions in an empty table, and may dete...