ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,188, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for providing in-storage acceleration (ISA) in data storage devices" was invented by Ramdas Kachare (San Jose, Calif.), Fred Worley (San Jose, Calif.) and Xuebin Yao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes: a data storage medium; a processor comprising a plurality of processor cores; a plurality of application acceleration black-box (AABB) slots including reconfigurable logic blocks, interconnects, and memories; a host interface that receives a host command from a remote application...