US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 28 for "Storage device for executing background operation based on power state and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,607, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device for executing background operation based on power state and operating method thereof" was invented by In Jong Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may enter a plurality of intermediate power states sequentially while entering from a first power state to a second power state. The storage device may check background flag information while entering each of the plurality of intermediate power states, and execute a target background operation, executable in a first intermediate power state, based on the b...