ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,697, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system and operating method thereof for allocating and storing meta data" was invented by Duck Joo Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of pages; and a memory controller configured to allocate, to a meta page among the plurality of pages, a first region including regions configured to store plural pieces of meta data respectively according to types of the plural pieces of meta data, and a second region configured to...