ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,097, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems and methods for near-storage processing in solid state drives" was invented by Mohammadreza Soltaniyeh (San Jose, Calif.), Veronica Lagrange Moutinho Dos Reis (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Bryson (San Jose, Calif.) and Xuebin Yao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for computational offload to storage systems. The method can include a first processing element issuing a first request to the storage device; a storage device, responsive to the first request, obtaining first data on the stor...