US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "Storage controller performing active zone refresh, method of operating storage controller, and method of operating storage device having storage controller" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,052, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyconggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage controller performing active zone refresh, method of operating storage controller, and method of operating storage device having storage controller" was invented by Minsik Son (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyunkoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junseok Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Suhwan Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of operating a storage controller which communicates with a host and a non-volatile memory device. The method includes receiving a first state transition request for ...