ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,671, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Hardware file system" was invented by Ashot Kulikyan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic file system for storing and retrieving data from an electronic physical memory device is presented. The electronic physical memory device includes an enumerated plurality of fixed-size blocks. The electronic file system includes: a finite state machine controller and an electronic memory communicatively coupled to the finite state machine controller. The electronic memory stores an available block table and a plurality of allocated block tables. The co...