ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,475, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Data compression" was invented by Young Sik Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoon Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonyoung Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanbyeul Na (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device, which includes a nonvolatile memory device that stores or reads user data and a controller that controls the nonvolatile memory device, and the nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality...