ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,257, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for processing storage transactions" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jimmy Lau (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tinh Lac (Manteca, Calif.), Mounica Behara (San Jose, Calif.) and Vinit Apte (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing storage transactions are disclosed. A transaction between a storage device and a host computing device is identified. The storage device determines that the transaction satisfies a criterion, and inserts data into a packet associated with t...