US Patent Issued to SK hynix on May 13 for "Storage device for caching data segment in hash-based data segment cache and operating method of the storage device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,905, issued on May 13, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Storage device for caching data segment in hash-based data segment cache and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Hye Mi Kang (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may determine a target data segment from among a plurality of data segments, execute a hash function on the target data segment, and cache the target data segment in a data segment cache based on a result of executing the hash function on the target data segment. The data segment cache may be a hash table including N buckets each of which is able t...