PetaIO Assigned Patent

PetaIO Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11645005) developed by Yang, Fan, Fremont, CA, Ji, Peirong, San Mateo, CA, and Xu, Changyou, San Jose, CA, for “near-memory computing systems and methods.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Example near-memory computing systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a system includes a host command processing system and a computational engine associated with a solid-state drive. In some situations, the computational engine includes multiple versatile processing unit slices coupled to one another. The multiple versatile processing unit slices are configured to perform different tasks in parallel with one another. The system also includes a host direct memory access module configured to access memory devices independently of a central processing unit.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-02-26 (17/187483).