US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 23 for "Storage device providing high purge performance and memory block management method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,902, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device providing high purge performance and memory block management method thereof" was invented by Youngjoon Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinhwan Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device performing a purge operation in response to a replay protected memory block (RPMB) purge command comprises at least one nonvolatile memory device; and a storage controller. The storage controller is configured to control data input and data output of the at least one nonvolatile memory device, track a at least o...