US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 12 for "Storage device and operating method of storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,639, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method of storage device" was invented by Youngmin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongheum Baik (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungsub Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongyong Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gyuseok Choe (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device which includes a nonvolatile memory device that includes a plurality of erase units each including a plurality of memory cells, and a memory controller. Based on an open zone request received from an external host device...