ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,190, issued on March 18, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Data storage device and method of operating the same" was invented by Eun Soo Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an electronic device. Based on the present technology, a storage device providing an improved security function may include a memory device including a protected memory block that is configured to store information for authenticating data to be read from or written to the memory device and is protected by a security protocol and a memory controller configured to receive a command pro...