ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,005, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device performing dummy read operation, and method of operating the same" was invented by Yun-Ki Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a storage device includes a storage controller and a non-volatile memory device. The method includes providing, by the storage controller, the non-volatile memory device with a first command indicating a temperature read operation, providing, by a temperature sensor of the non-volatile memory device, a first meas...