ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,612, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Mechanism to identify FPGA and SSD pairing in a multi-device environment" was invented by Oscar P. Pinto (San Jose, Calif.) and Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system may include a Solid State Drive (SSD) and a co-processor. The SSD may include storage for data, storage for a unique SSD identifier (ID), and storage for a unique co-processor ID. The co-processor include storage for the unique SSD ID, and storage for the unique co-processor ID. A hardware interface may permit communication...