ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,128, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller, storage device and operating method of memory controller" was invented by Wi Jik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong-Min Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jun Hwang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hong Rak Son (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an operating method of a memory controller which comprises receiving first decision data of M bits from a memory device, where M is a natural number; converting the M-bit first decision data into second decision data of N bits, where N is a natural numbe...