ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,985, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for memory access in storage devices" was invented by Zongwang Li (Dublin, Calif.), Tong Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for memory access may include receiving, at a device, a first memory access request for a parallel workload, receiving, at the device, a second memory access request for the parallel workload, processing, by a first logical device of the device, the first memory access request, and processing, ...