ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,168, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Controller for improving wear leveling efficiency, storage device and method for operating storage device" was invented by Hee Chan Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jeong Su Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jong Tack Jung (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of adjusting the performance of a wear leveling operation depending on the pattern of a workload according to a command inputted to a storage device, thereby managing a difference in the count of erase operations between storage areas included in a memory not to ...