ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,774, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Computational storage device and method of operating the same" was invented by Jong Won Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Oak Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myung June Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Ho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a computational storage device includes: setting a first computing namespace, including a first queue and a first accelerator and having a first value as its first ID, per instructions from a first host; setting a second computing namespace, including a secon...