Samsung Electronics and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Assigned Patent

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin-si, Korea, and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, has been assigned a patent (12360906) developed by Bikonda; Naga Sanjana, Kim; Wookhee, Ramanathan; Madhava Krishnan, Min; Changwoo, Blacksburg, VA, and Maram; Vishwanath, San Jose, CA, for “systems and methods for a cross-layer key-value store with a computational storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Provided is a method of data storage, the method including receiving, at a host of a key-value store, a request to access a data node stored on a storage device of the key-value store, locating an address corresponding to the data node in a host cache on the host, and determining that the data node is in a kernel cache on the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-06-13 (17/839429).