ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,786, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for fault resilient storage" was invented by Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sungwook Ryu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alain Tran (Hwasung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a storage device may include determining a fault condition of the storage device, selecting a fault resilient mode based on the fault condition of the storage device, and operating the storage device in the selected fault resilient mode. The selected fault resilient mode may include one of a power cycle mode, a reform...