US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 7 for "Storage device and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,697, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and method of operating the same" was invented by Hee Seok Eun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soo-Young Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of namespaces including a plurality of logical blocks; and a storage controller configured to, for each of the plurality of namespaces, check a capacity that is a number of allocable logical blocks, among the plurality of logical blocks, and a size that is a sum of a number of currently allocated logical...