ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,288, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and method of performing backup based on zone features" was invented by Kui-Yon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyeong Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunsan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joon-Whan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heetak Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghyun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device, including: a nonvolatile memory device including memory cells; ...