ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,023, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for stream based data placement on hybrid SSD" was invented by Jingpei Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.) and YangSeok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-stream solid-state device (SSD) includes a normal-access memory associated with a first stream ID, a high-access memory having a higher endurance than the normal-access memory and being associated with a second stream ID, a controller processor, and a processor memory coupled to the controller...