ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,404, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device performing copy operation in background and operating method thereof" was invented by Jesuk Yeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and In Hwan Doh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a storage device which includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller controlling the nonvolatile memory device includes receiving, by the controller from a host device, a first logical address of a source range entry, a second logical address of a destination range entry, and a first copy command including...