ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,702, issued on March 11, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller including memory manager for mapping buffer identifier to segment" was invented by Tae Ho Lim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ie Ryung Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Dong Sop Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Youn Won Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jae Min Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a plurality of processors, a memory device and a memory manager. The memory device includes a plurality of segments, which are divided into a plurality of segment groups, to which group identifiers are...