ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,942, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device providing protection from data interference" was invented by Jinwook Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device having a first erase unit area and a second erase unit area that has a bit density higher than a bit density of the first erase unit area, and a storage controller. The storage controller receives a write command including a tag indicating a danger from a first electronic control unit, based on an automobile safety level of data received with the write command...