ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,132, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Youngsik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghyun Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a storage device and an operating method thereof. The storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory regions and a storage controller configured to control the non-volatile memory through a performance path and at least one direct path, the storage controller including a buffer memory configured t...