ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,981, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and storage management method using same" was invented by Woojoong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongjun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungjong Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a memory including a storage; and a processor operatively connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: based on a request to delete a file, identify use attribute information about the file requested to be deleted; based on information related to an extension of the file ...