US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 14 for "Storage controller performing partial refresh operation, storage device including the same, and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,651, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller performing partial refresh operation, storage device including the same, and method of operating the same" was invented by Yunjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang-Wook Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bomi Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of operating a storage controller which includes a volatile memory device. The method includes determining whether a low-power mode is available, based on validity bitmap information indicating invalidit...