ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,646, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device, storage controller, and operating method for reordering read requests" was invented by Sundong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunkyung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Syungki Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Juhun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a storage controller controlling a plurality of read operations in response to a plurality of read requests sequentially received from a host, a plurality of nonvolatile memories connected to the storage controller through a plurality of ...