ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,906, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a cross-layer key-value store with a computational storage device" was invented by Naga Sanjana Bikonda (Blacksburg, Va.), Wookhee Kim (Blacksburg, Va.), Madhava Krishnan Ramanathan (Blacksburg, Va.), Changwoo Min (Blacksburg, Va.) and Vishwanath Maram (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of data storage, the method including receiving, at a host of a key-value store, a request to access a data node stored on a storage ...