ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,683, issued on March 11, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method of controller" was invented by Sang Ho Yun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jang Seob Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes a memory region which includes a first sub-region and a second sub-region. The controller reads assist data from a plurality of memory cells according to an assist read voltage during a read voltage adjusting operation on the first sub-region as a target sub-region, and re-utilizes the r...