ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,850, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).
"Storage device, host device, and computing system" was invented by Hyeong Ju Na (Icheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, a controller of a host device may manage data stored in a storage device, on the basis of a section which corresponds to a super block of the storage device and includes at least two segments. It is possible to provide measures enabling limited overwrite of a full section including a valid segment and allowing allocation and garbage collection to be performed by the unit of segment,...