SK hynix and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University Assigned Patent
Controller and operating method
By Francis Pelletier | October 13, 2022 at 2:00 pmSK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11,450,394) developed by Ahn, Soo Hong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Chung, Eui Young, and Park, Young Min, Seoul, Korea, for “controller and operating method thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A controller that controls a nonvolatile memory apparatus may include a first memory configured to temporarily store user data, a second memory including a plurality of memory regions composed of one or more meta regions for storing meta data and at least one spare region, and a processor configured to control the first memory and the second memory and perform first start-gap wear leveling on at least one meta region using the at least one spare region as a gap.”
The patent application was filed on August 26, 2020 (17/003,232).
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