ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,867, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and storage system including the same" was invented by Seungjun Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nam Wook Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include a plurality of non-volatile memories, a host interface configured to receive at least one packet including a TRIM command from a host device, and the host interface configured to determine a trim path for processing the TRIM command by comparing a first trim range threshold value and a trim range of the TRIM command, a trim manage modu...