ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,576, issued on May 27.

"Storage for AI applications" was invented by Alex Winokur (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protected facility (20), including a processor (150) a network (46) and a security module (50) unidirectionally coupling the network to a workstation (34) external to the facility, and configured to carry commands (78) unidirectionally from the workstation to the network and to be incapable of carrying commands in the opposite direction. A storage controller (24) coupled the network is configured to define first and second volumes (64) including respective sets of storage blocks (136), to store data (3...