ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,458, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Operating method of storage controller, storage device, and operating method of storage device" was invented by Chonghyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seokha Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngjin Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a storage controller includes, storing data and a source type of the data in a cache memory, when a cache hit occurs, determining a source type of data corresponding to the cache hit and updating a hit count corresponding to the d...