US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Offloaded device-driven erasure coding" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,690, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Offloaded device-driven erasure coding" was invented by Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing data may include receiving user data at a group of storage devices, wherein the storage devices are interconnected, erasure coding the user data into redundancy blocks at the group of storage devices, and storing the redundancy blocks on at least two of the storage devices. The erasure encoding may be distributed among at least two of the storage devices. The redundancy bloc...