US Patent Issued to SK hynix on May 27 for "Memory controller, memory system and operating method of memory device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,172, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory controller, memory system and operating method of memory device" was invented by Hung Yung Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a block ratio calculator configured to calculate a ratio of free blocks among memory blocks for storing data; a policy selector configured to select, based on the calculated ratio of free blocks, any one garbage collection policy of a first garbage collection policy of specifying priorities to be used to select a victim block depending on attributes of the data, and a ...