ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,656, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Network storage gateway" was invented by Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yangwook Kang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may include ports to receive requests from a host and to send requests to a second storage device. The SSD may include flash storage for data. An SSD controller may process the requests received from the host and generate the requests sent to the second storage device. The SSD may act as a cache for the second storage device."
The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2023,...