ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,043, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"In-memory garbage collection" was invented by Haobo Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device of a storage device may receive a garbage collection command from a memory controller coupled to the memory device to perform an internal garbage collection operation within the memory device. The memory device may attempt to perform the garbage collection operation to internally move valid memory pages from a first memory block to a second memory block to free up the first memory block in response to...