ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,507, issued on April 7, was assigned to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Suk-Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu-Seung Han (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae-Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for controlling nonvolatile memory. The apparatus may include nonvolatile memory and a memory controller for issuing a serial clock (SCK) to the nonvolatile memory and transferring data corresponding to a requested command to the nonvolatile memory or receiving da...