ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,852, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for hierarchical aggregation for computational storage" was invented by Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sungwook Ryu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computational storage may include storing, at a storage device, two or more portions of data, wherein a first one of the two or more portions of data comprises a first fragment of a record and a second one of the two or more portions of data comprises a second fragment of the record, and performing, by the storage device, an operation on...