ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,438, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device, memory system comprising the same, and operation method thereof" was invented by Dong-Woo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Songho Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeong-Woo Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong-Min Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kyoung Back Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a storage device including a turbo write buffer and a user storage area implemented with a nonvolatile memory, and a host configured to transfer a read request to the storage device. In re...