US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and operating method of storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,902, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and operating method of storage device" was invented by Joon-Whan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyeong Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kui-Yon Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heetak Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device, including: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller configured to, based on receiving an open zone command from an external host device: based on a number of free erase units from among a pluralit...