ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,755, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Adaptable data caching mechanism for in-memory cluster computing" was invented by Inseok Stephen Choi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory cluster computing framework node is described. The node includes storage devices having various priorities. The node also includes a resource monitor to monitor the operation of the storage devices. The node also includes a resource scheduler. When the resource monitor indicates that a storage device is at or approaching saturation, the resource sche...