US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Sept. 16 for "Storage device distributing bad memory units in super memory block and operating method of the storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,044, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device distributing bad memory units in super memory block and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Jae Il Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dong Hwan Koo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Duck Joo Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Joon Ho Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Young Hoon Cha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When it is determined that a first super memory block among a plurality of super memory blocks satisfies an exchange condition, the storage device may exchange a first memory unit in the first...