ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,731, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and device for storing data" was invented by Yuqi Zhang (XiAn, China), Ni Xue (XiAn, China) and Yangxu Zhou (XiAn, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing data includes receiving a message to perform garbage collection on a first block of blocks included in a storage apparatus, and, based on the message, performing garbage collection on the first block by storing valid data that is stored in the first block into a second block according to a level of the first block among plural levels. A level of the second block a...