ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,872, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device configured to selectively change a stream identifier and operating method of storage device" was invented by Seongcheol Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyungkyun Byun (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device according to the technical ideas of the inventive concepts include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, the plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of pages; a data controller configured to receive, from a host, data to be written to the plurality of pages...