ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,953, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and operating method thereof" was invented by Minho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is provided. The storage device includes: a first non-volatile memory including a plurality of cell strings storing a plurality of logical address values and a plurality of physical address values; a second non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells corresponding to the plurality of physical address values; and a storage controller configured to read a first physical address value fro...