ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,442, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and storage device assembly using the same" was invented by Byungwoo Nam (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jooyoung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jihong Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a module substrate extending in one direction, a non-volatile memory device mounted on the module substrate, a controller mounted on the module substrate, a first connector disposed at a first end of the module substrate and through which data stored in the non-volatile memory device is inpu...