ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,485, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Host device generating block map information, method of operating the same, and method of operating electronic device including the same" was invented by Daejun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seokhwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yonggil Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device which includes a host device and a storage device. A method of operating the electronic device includes performing, by the host device, a validity check operation of a target host zone among a plurality of host...