US Patent Issued to Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for sorting data, storage apparatus" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,185, issued on May 27, was assigned to Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Method and apparatus for sorting data, storage apparatus" was invented by Meng Kun Lee (Cupertino, Calif.), Chen Xiu (Beijing), Weitao Xu (Shanghai) and Lyle E. Adams (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each data in a plurality of data, data is read from a cache unit. For each data in the plurality of data, a group to which the data read from the cache unit belongs to is determined based at least in part on a predetermined grouping rule. A determination is made of (1) a quantity of groups and (2) a quantity of data correspo...