ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,564, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller and operation method thereof" was invented by Kwanhyo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taec-Jun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangwoo Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller included in a storage device, the storage controller including an interrupt circuit that detects a sudden power off (SPO) with respect to the storage device, and issues a SPO notification and an emergency flush request; a central processing unit that receives the SPO notification and issues a program request; and a...