ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,414, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device, memory device, and computing system including the same" was invented by Chon Yong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongsik Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyung-Chang Ryoo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae-Hoon Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is provided. The memory device includes: a buffer memory; and a memory controller configured to: obtain map data and meta data for recovering the map data from at least one external storage device; store the map ...