ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,604, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Data processing apparatus and method for zswap acceleration" was invented by Youngsam Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Deok Jae Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeongon Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seongwook Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus spaced apart from a host and configured to process data in a memory in conjunction with the host includes a near-memory processing unit configured to receive a command from the host, compress or decompress the data in response to the command, and manage an ...