ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,516, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods host and device cooperation for managing a memory of the device" was invented by Marc Timothy Jones (Longmont, Colo.) and Daniel Lee Helmick (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for host and device cooperation. In some embodiments, a storage device comprises a first memory for storing data; a second memory configured with a cache coherent protocol; and a processing circuit coupled to the first memory and the second memory. T...