ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,589, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"System and method for identifying SSDs with lowest tail latencies" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sompong Paul Olarig (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Wentao Wu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include storage to store data and a controller to manage reading data from and writing data to the storage. The controller may also include a receiver to receive a plurality of requests, information determination logic to determine information about the plurality of requests...