US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 4 for "Storage device and method for storing meta data in a distributed manner" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,746, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and method for storing meta data in a distributed manner" was invented by Sangjin Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heewon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungchan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyojin Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongcheul Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a storage device, which includes: a memory device that includes a plurality of memory blocks, and stores first meta data including first status data and a first parameter in a firs...