ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,452, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device including nonvolatile memory device and controller" was invented by Changjun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dayeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongjun Cho (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 nonvolatile memory device that includes a first area and a second area, and a controller that receives a first command from an external host device, generates a physical address by performing first error correction decoding on a ph...