ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,021, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Memory system based on flash memory and method for managing meta data thereof" was invented by Hyun Jin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghyun Noh (Gyeonggi-Dosuwon-si, South Korea), Insoon Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kui-Yon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Myung-Jin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system which includes a flash memory including a meta block and a data block, and a memory controller including a meta data managing module managing meta data to be stored in the meta block. The meta block includes a plura...