ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,114, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage system, storage device, and monitoring method" was invented by Taewook Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suckhyun Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho-Jin Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minha Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some example embodiments provide a storage device including a non-volatile memory; a microcontroller unit configured to monitor statuses of constituent elements of the storage device and output an abnormality signal based on the constituent elements not being in a normal status; and a storage...