ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,296, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Multi-protocol IO infrastructure for a flexible storage platform" was invented by Fred Worley (San Jose, Calif.), Harry Rogers (San Jose, Calif.), Sreenivas Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Zhan Ping (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Scriber (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass...