ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,326, issued on April 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device and operation method thereof" was invented by Seon Ju Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jeong Sun Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an operation method of a storage device, which is for providing an optimal program/read efficiency in the storage device. The operation method includes: receiving program commands that request data write and data to be written from at least one first outside; storing sequentially the program commands in a command queue in the order in which they are received and st...