ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,363, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Optimal dynamic shard creation in storage for graph workloads" was invented by Seyedeh Hanieh Hashemi (Los Angeles), Joo Hwan Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a host processor interface circuit configured to communicate data and commands with an external host processor circuit. The apparatus may include a controller processor circuit configured to merge graph data elements into merged dynamic shards, wherein the merged dynamic shards inc...