ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,410, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Hyeongyu Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inhae Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sooyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangwook Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a storage controller and a non-volatile memory including a first memory region including first memory cells having a first data retention time and a second memory region including second memory cells having a second data retention time that is shorter than the first data reten...