ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,161, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Systems and methods for cache allocation" was invented by Qirui Yang (San Diego), Bridget Davis (San Diego), Devasena Inupakutika (Rockville, Md.), Peter Chen (San Diego) and Bradley Carpenter (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data storage includes receiving, by a storage device, a read request for data, the read request being associated with a request size, determining that a first cache area associated with a first portion of the data is in a first portion of a cache, the first cache area having a first size t...