ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,152, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device" was invented by Kyungduk Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Youngseop Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongsung Na (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device including: a memory device including a plurality of superblocks, wherein each superblock includes memory blocks included in a group of a plurality of non-volatile memories; and a controller for controlling the memory device, wherein the controller controls a first superblock among the plurality of superblocks to be erased to program data receive...