ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,004, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device performing error correction and operating method of storage device" was invented by YongSung Kil (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonyoung Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hong Rak Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kangseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device which includes a nonvolatile memory device, and a memory controller that performs a read operation on the nonvolatile memory device and performs an error correction operation on data read in the read operation. In the error co...