ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,647, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and prefetch method thereof" was invented by Daejin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yonghwan Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeong-Woo Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include a non-volatile memory configured to store one file as a plurality of file fragments, and a storage controller configured to receive a read command with respect to the plurality of file fragments from a host through UFS protocol information unit (UPIU), and perform prefetching on the plurality of file fra...