ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,844, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and system" was invented by Soojung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeonwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of namespaces, and a storage controller configured to receive, from an external host, a first namespace identifier of a first namespace from among the plurality of namespaces and a first command requesting to control exposure of the first namespace, and based on the first namespace identifier and the first command, set the fir...