ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,844, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Data processing method and data processing device" was invented by Xing He (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hao Yan (Suwon-si, South Korea), Zhao Chen (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yanlong Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yiwen Zhang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method and device are provided. The data processing method includes acquiring hot keys read from a log structure merge (LSM) tree within a preset duration, determining a total size of the read hot keys, and adjusting a size of each of a plurality of lev...