ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,888, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device having fast cell information and operation method thereof" was invented by Woohyun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jisoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangkwon Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkyo Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghoo Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jin gu Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a non-volatile memory device configured to store fast cell information obtained from a threshold voltage distribution formed through a on...