ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,859, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller mapping physical function to virtual machine and method of operating electronic system including the same" was invented by Hanju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soogon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungjune Youn (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller for controlling a nonvolatile memory device is disclosed. The storage controller includes a buffer memory and a processor. The processor is configured to provide a plurality of physical functions having equivalent authorities to a host, and to...