ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,815, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Operation method of storage controller for nonvolatile memory device" was invented by Youngjoo Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdeok Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangkwon Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkyo Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hee-Tai Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heewon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jisoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method for controlling a nonvolatile memory device includes initiating a first instance of a respective reliability operation for a respective memory block in...