ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,374, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and operating method of storage device" was invented by Junyeong Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kui-Yon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunsan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongmin Kim (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 a plurality of memory cells forming a user area and a reserved area; a...