US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 15 for "Prefetching data for sequential reads in nonvolatile memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,892, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Prefetching data for sequential reads in nonvolatile memory device" was invented by Keunsan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joon-Whan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heetak Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device, including: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller including an internal buffer including zone buffers, and configured to: allocate a plurality of zones to a storage space, select two or more erase units to be alloc...