US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 31 for "Storage device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,380, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Heesung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunwook Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a first non-volatile memory device storing a data; a first selector connected to the first non-volatile memory device; a plurality of channels connected to the first selector; and a memory controller connected to the plurality of channels, transmitting a command for sensing a state of a channel to the plurality of channels in order to transmit ...