ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,857, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Storage device, operating method thereof, and electronic device" was invented by Jinwoong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device, an operation method thereof, and an electronic device are disclosed. A storage device includes a main memory comprising a first segment that is not masked and a second segment that is masked, a cache memory configured to store some metadata stored in the main memory, and a memory controller configured to map a physical address of the second segment to a physical address of the...