ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,122, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller providing status information of zone region, method of operating the same, and method of operating electronic device having the same" was invented by Minkyeong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaesub Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yangwoo Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youkun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a storage controller which communicates with a host device and a non-volatile memory device is provi...