ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,486, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and storage adapter including the same" was invented by Sang Hun Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung Chul Hur (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bumjun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungmoo Son (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage adapter includes a carrier and a storage device. The storage device stores data and includes a buffer memory including a volatile memory, a nonvolatile memory, a memory controller that controls the buffer memory and the nonvolatile memory, and a mode signal generating circuit that g...