ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,744, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Programmable blockchain solid state drive and switch" was invented by Rajinikanth Pandurangan (Fremont, Calif.) and Vijay Balakrishnan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable data storage device includes: a non-volatile memory; a storage controller configured to control the non-volatile memory; a network interface; and a field programmable gate array configured to: implement a blockchain algorithm; and store at least one block of a blockchain corresponding to the blockchain algorithm in the non-volatile memory v...