SK hynix and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Dankook University Assigned Patent

SK hynix Inc., Icheon, Korea, and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University, Yongin, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11960724) developed by Choi, Jongmoo, and Oh, Myunghoon, Yongin, Korea, for a “device for detecting zone parallelity of a solid state drive and operating method thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A device for detecting zone parallelity includes a detection control circuit configured to generate respective first and second requests for first and second zones among a plurality of zones included in a solid state drive (SSD). An SSD controller is configured to control the SSD by generating a first command and a second command corresponding to the first request and the second request, respectively, and to schedule the first command and the second command. The detection control circuit determines zone parallelity of the first and second zones using response characteristics of the responses of the SSD to the first request and the second request. The response characteristics may include a latency of a response.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-09-02 (17/929651).