ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,695, issued on July 15, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Storage device" was invented by Takashi Nagao (Tokyo), Tomohiro Yoshihara (Tokyo), Jun Miyashita (Tokyo) and Masahiro Tsuruya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a processor and an accelerator configured to compress and decompress data. The processor receives first replacement write data for a part of a first logical address region to update first data in the first logical address region that has been compressed by basic compression unit. The processor instructs the accelerator to compress the first replacement write data by a...