ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,581, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller redirecting write operation and operating method thereof" was invented by Minji Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangwon Jung (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an operating method of a storage controller communicating with a host and memory regions, which includes receiving a write request for a first memory region of the memory regions from the host, determining the first memory region as unavailable, based on a status information set, generating redirection information indicating that a second...