ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,759, issued on July 8, was assigned to NETLIST INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Heterogeneous in-storage computation" was invented by Ricardo Cassia (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Vladimir Alves (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device. In some embodiments the storage device includes a storage controller; a nonvolatile memory device connected to the storage controller through a first physical interface, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit may be connected, through a second physical interface, to the storage controller or to the nonvolatile memory device, the second physical interface being the same as ...