US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 15 for "Memory die with on-chip binary vector database search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,672, issued on July 15, 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...