ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,748, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Methods, devices, and systems for allocating memory space" was invented by Kyungsan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junhyeok Im (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of allocating a memory space is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of arena pools by logically grouping a plurality of memories based on a physical characteristic of each of the memories, the plurality of memories including a first memory and a second memory that is different from the first memory, generating a...