ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,899, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and operating method of storage device" was invented by Kui-Yon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunsan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joon-Whan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device, including: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller configured to: allocate a plurality of zones to a storage space of the nonvolatile memory device base...