ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,680, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for managing sorted keys in a persistent memory system" was invented by Vinod Daga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Angel Benedicto Aviles Jr. (San Jose, Calif.) and Shwetha Handral Sridhara (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for system and method for managing sorted keys in a persistent memory system. In some embodiments, the method includes adding a key to a sorted set of keys. The adding may include: identifying a bin, in a key map, corresponding to the key; and adding the key to a subset of key...