ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,077, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Systems, methods, and devices for using a reclaim unit based on a reference update in a storage device" was invented by Daniel Lee Helmick (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include at least one storage medium, and a controller that may include at least one processor configured to perform an update operation associated with a reclaim unit handle that references at least one reclaim unit of the at least one storage medium, read, based on the update operation, data from a first reclaim unit of the at least one storage ...