ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,422, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Karan Singh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Rajendra Singh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of operating a storage device which includes a non-volatile memory device. The method includes informing a host that a designation functionality for designating a data criticality and a priority to namespaces of the non-volatile memory device is possible, enabling the designation functionality in response to receiving an approval of the designation fun...