US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Sept. 23 for "Storage device programming target dummy data in target memory unit and operating method of the storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,986, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Ichcon, South Korea).

"Storage device programming target dummy data in target memory unit and operating method of the storage device" was invented by Seung Gu Ji (Icheon, South Korea), Dong Hwan Kim (Icheon, South Korea), Dae Seok Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Dong Jae Shin (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may determine a target memory block from among a plurality of memory blocks, determine a target memory unit from among the plurality of memory units included in the target memory block, and program target dummy data into the target memo...