ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,424, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device for managing data based on time information and operation method thereof" was invented by Seung-Ho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an operation method of a storage device which includes receiving a record including owner data and time information, mapping the time information included in the received record to a physical address of a non-volatile memory, storing part or all of the record including the owner data to the mapped physical address of the non-volatile memory, receiving an acce...