ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,553, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Storage system and operating method of storage controller" was invented by Won Hee Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Sung Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dong Eun Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) device, having a memory cell array, and a storage controller. The storage controller receives a write command data from a host and controls the NVM device to write the data in the memory cell array. Additionally, the storage controller determines a memory region of the memory cell array...