ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,005, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device for skipping redundant replay and journal replay method thereof" was invented by Hyeju Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sodam Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A journal replay method of a storage device includes loading metadata into a buffer memory, initializing a first trim bit and a second trim bit of a trim table to a clear state, the first and second trim bits indicating a replay status of respective first and second trim journals in first and second address ranges of the metadata, updating first ...