ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,913, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"System and method of providing atomicity to large writes to persistent memory" was invented by Angel Benedicto Aviles Jr. (San Jose, Calif.), Vinod Kumar Daga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vamsikrishna Sadhu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tejas Hunsur Krishna (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed that provides atomicity for large data writes to persistent memory of an object storage system. A segment of persistent memory is allocated to an application. The persistent memory includes non-volatile memory that is access...