ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,626, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for distributed caching" was invented by Hubbert Smith (San Jose, Calif.) and Vikas Sinha (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for distributed caching, the system having at least one network-connected storage device, a content server, and a control server. The control server is configured to discover the at least one network-connected storage device, collect device information from the at least one network-connected storage device, where the device information comprises a device location, as...