ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,077, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and device for copy command execution in data storage management system" was invented by Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu (San Carlos, Calif.), Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Young Deok Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided in which a controller of a storage device generates copy-read subcommands and copy-write subcommands of a copy command. The controller executes a blocking no-operation (NOP) command that spans a first storage address range of the copy-write subcommands in a fir...