US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Storage device and method with flexible power loss protection" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,171, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and method with flexible power loss protection" was invented by Jooeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeayoung Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaesub Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yangwoo Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a multi-function controller configured to control a plurality of functions requested from a host, a power loss protection (PLP) capacitor configured to supply auxiliary power to the storage device, and a PLP controller co...