SK hynix and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation Assigned Patent

SK hynix Inc., Icheon, Korea, and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation, Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11,321,243) developed by Woo, Yeong Jae, and Min, Sang Lyul, Seoul, Korea, for a “data storage device including a semiconductor device managing address mapping of a semiconductor memory device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage device includes a memory device including a normal data region and a mapping data region, the normal data region being configured to store normal data, the mapping data region being configured to store mapping data, a host request managing device configured to manage a read/write request from a host, a mapping managing device configured to cache a part of the mapping data and to manage mapping information according to a request from the host request managing device, and a memory controller configured to manage an operation of the memory device according to a request from at least one of the host request managing device and the mapping managing device.”

The patent application was filed on July 9, 2020 (16/924,946).