ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,315, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Multi-value mapping for object store" was invented by Vinod Kumar Daga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vamsikrishna Sadhu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Angel Benedicto Aviles Jr. (San Jose, Calif.), Vijaya Kumar Jakkula (San Jose, Calif.) and Venkata Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mapping an object store may include storing a data entry within a mapping page for an object in the object store, wherein the data entry may include a key and a value, and the value may include an address for the object in the object...