ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,322, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for supporting machine learning algorithms and data pattern matching in ethernet SSD" was invented by Sompong P. Olarig (Pleasanton, Calif.), Fred Worley (San Jose, Calif.) and Nazanin Farahpour (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory array for storing data; a host interface for providing an interface with a host computer running an application; a central control unit configured to receive a command in a submission queue from the application and initiate a search process in re...