ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,474, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device and method performing processing operation requested by host" was invented by Soo-Young Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes; a memory, a management circuit configured to manage an offloading program table and a count table, and a computing circuit configured to perform a processing operation using the offloading program table, the count table, and the memory. The management circuit is further configured to, in response to a first offloading program and a first offloading request,...