ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,860, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic devices inheriting lifetime information, and methods of operating the same" was invented by Daejun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Keoseong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an electronic device which includes a host device and a storage device. The method includes initiating a first write operation of target data and a first logical block address (LBA), generating target identification information of the target data in response to initiating the first write operation, determining t...