ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,977, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Low latency multiple storage device system" was invented by Zongwang Li (Dublin, Calif.), Marie Mai Nguyen (Pittsburgh, Calif.), Heekwon Park (San Jose, Calif.), Mehran Elyasi (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. A storage device may store a data. A load module may read the data from the storage device based at least in part on an input/output (I/O) request. A scheduler may place the I/O request in a queue for delivery to the load module based at least in part on a size of the I...