ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,071, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controllers and storage devices including the same" was invented by Hyun Sub Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller configured to write, read, and erase data for a nonvolatile memory device storing first meta data and first journal data indicating first changes of the first meta data, the memory controller comprising: a buffer memory circuit including a buffer memory and a buffer controller, wherein the buffer memory stores second meta data and second journal data indicating second changes of th...