ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,475, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Storage device for performing access authority control and operating method thereof" was invented by Yeonwoo Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seonbong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungmoon Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongho Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwanghee Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device for performing an access authority control and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The storage device including processing circuitry configured to store a plurali...