US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 20 for "Memory die with on-chip binary vector database search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,289, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory die with on-chip binary vector database search" was invented by Steven T. Sprouse (San Jose, Calif.), Yan Li (Milpitas, Calif.) and Frank W. Tsai (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device is configured to store a database of objects in an NVM die as binary vectors and to then search the database based on binary key vectors. The binary vectors may be received from a host for storage in the NVM die. In other examples, a data storage controller converts floating-point vectors received from the host into binary vect...