US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 30 for "Data storage devices using non-volatile memory devices and operating methods thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,242, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Data storage devices using non-volatile memory devices and operating methods thereof" was invented by Joonhyuck Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suhwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kilmo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a data storge device including a buffer memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller, includes receiving, from a host, an encryption request for data stored in the buffer memory, and performing an encryption operation in response to the encryption request, wherein the perfo...