ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,732, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and device for storing data" was invented by Lei Geng (Shaanxi Province, China), Yanlong Yang (Shaanxi Province, China) and Yuqi Zhang (Shaanxi Province, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for storing data are provided. The method includes: selecting at least one block from a plurality of blocks in a storage device as a evicting block or a target block based on an expected expiration time of each of the plurality of blocks in response to a request for garbage collection, wherein the expected expiration time of e...