US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 1 for "Storage device operating in zone unit and data processing system including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,560, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device operating in zone unit and data processing system including the same" was invented by Jooyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to control a memory operation performed on the memory device by dividing the plurality of memory blocks into a plurality of superblocks. The memory controller is further configured to write a first compressed chunk generated by compres...