ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,503, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device initializing e-fuse region, and method of operating the same" was invented by Jangkwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sun-Dong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoo Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sung-Hwan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an operating method of a storage device which includes a non-volatile memory device and a storage controller. The method includes providing, by the storage controller, the non-volatile memory device with a first command indicating a target memory opera...