ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,020, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for attachable compute resources for storage devices" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sungwook Ryu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sanghun Jun (San Jose, Calif.), Oscar P. Pinto (San Jose, Calif.) and Karnik Shah (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include a storage medium, a storage device controller coupled to the storage medium, a host interface coupled to the storage device controller, and an attachable module interface configured to c...