ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,814, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device for backing up state group data in the event of a sudden power-off and program method thereof" was invented by Hyeonwu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hojun Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihwan Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoonjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments are directed to a method for programming a storage device including a nonvolatile memory device and a storage controller for storing multi-bit data, programming, by the storage cont...