ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,285, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller with improved write amplification characteristics and storage device including the same" was invented by Dong Eun Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Uk Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyun Jin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller for writing first data to a first memory cell by performing programming of the first memory cell N-times, where N is a positive integer greater than 1, includes a write amplification manager and a central processing unit. The write amplification manage...