ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,842, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods of distributed parity calculation offloading" was invented by Devesh Kumar Rai (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mohinder Kumar Saluja (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for offloading distributed parity calculations from a server including a plurality of solid-state drives (SSDs) in communication with a host via a host interface. Each SSD includes a processor. The processor of each SSD may be configured to access a host address space via the host interface, determine parity information for data stored across a plurality of buf...