ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,116, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Storage device, operation method of storage device, and storage system using the same" was invented by Wonseb Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yang Seok Ki (San Jose, Calif.), Jungmin Seo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Beomkyu Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sangoak Woo (Anyang-si, South Korea), Younggeon Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Chanho Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Myungjune Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a storage controller. The storage controller includes a multi...