ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,006, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Data storage device, system and controller" was invented by Jung Min Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Chul Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, a defective memory region is detected on the basis of operation information of a memory region included in a memory system and allocated to a host device, a warning signal is transmitted to a host device to which the defective memory region is allocated, and the defective memory region is excluded from a pool of allocatable memory regions t...