ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,430, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device supporting trim operation and storage system including the same" was invented by Seungho Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeong-Eun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungho Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taehyung Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory device and a solid state drive used as a cache memory for the memory device. The solid state drive includes a storage unit including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells, a memory controller configured to control the storage ...