ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,023, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller for managing journal data, and operating method of the memory controller" was invented by Chanha Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namwook Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangmin Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a journal buffer configured to store a plurality of pieces of journal data, the journal buffer including a plurality of bank pools and a journal data region, where each of the plurality of pieces of journal data includes a first...