ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,693, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device storing mapping information, memory system including the same, and operating method of memory system" was invented by Jungho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Insu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Beomkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeyong Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the memory system for communicating with a host includes a non-volatile memory device storing first mapping information, a volatile memory device storing second mapping information, and a memory controller. The fi...