ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,874, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method of storage device" was invented by Jinwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minji Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangwon Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device which includes nonvolatile memory devices each including a plurality of memory blocks, a memory controller that controls the nonvolatile memory devices, and a buffer memory that buffers data to be written in the nonvolatile memory devices. In an on-time erase operation, the memory controller controls t...