ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,883, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Network device intermediary for memory access requests" was invented by Ziye Yang (Shanghai), Shaopeng He (Shanghai), Changpeng Liu (Shanghai) and Xiaodong Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to receiving memory access requests in a first number of connections from one or more front-end clients destined to a storage system and consolidating the memory access requests to a second number of connections between a network device and the storage system, wherein the second number is less than th...