ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,122, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method of operating storage device using program suspension control and storage device performing the same" was invented by Youngil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongjae Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a storage device, first information associated with operation of the storage device is received from a host device. Second information internally generated based on write requests, read requests, and operation of the storage device is received. Program commands and read commands are tra...