ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,743, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Storage method, storage device and storage system" was invented by Yufang Li (Xi'an, China), Hao Yan (Xi'an, China), Lijuan Xue (Xi-an, China), Sha Shi (Xi'an, China) and Wenbin Cao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage method includes determining layers that are to be merged in a database; determining a data block that is to be modified based on files of the layers that are to be merged in the database; reading a corresponding data block in the memory and reorganizing the read data block, according to a key corresponding to the data b...