SK hynix and Board of Trustees of University of Illinois Assigned Patent

SK hynix Inc., Icheon, Korea, and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, has been assigned a patent (11763041) developed by Huang, Jian, Champaign, IL, Wang, Xiaohao, Santa Clara, CA, Kang, Luyi, College Park, MD, Kim, Jong Ryool, Lim, Hyung Jin, Kang, Myeong Joon, and Youn, Chang Hwan, Icheon, Korea, for a “data storage device performing in-storage processing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device, a volatile memory device, a data encryption circuit configured to encrypt data outputted from the nonvolatile memory device, a data decryption circuit configured to decrypt encrypted data output from the data encryption circuit and configured to provide the decrypted data to the volatile memory device, and a processor configured to perform a first process that controls installation of a first in-storage program in the data storage device, a second process configured to manage a mapping table storing a relation between a logical address and a physical address of the nonvolatile memory device, and a third process configured to execute the first in-storage program.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-28 (17/243165).