ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,817, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Smart storage device using a computer express link (CXL) interface" was invented by Hyeok Jun Choe (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Youn Ho Jeon (Gimhae-si, South Korea), Young Geon Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyo-Deok Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and I Poom Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart storage device is provided. The smart storage device includes a smart interface connected to a host device. An accelerator circuit is connected to the smart interface through a data bus conforming to a CXL.cache protocol and...