ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,476, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Hybrid memory management systems and methods with in-storage processing and attribute data management" was invented by Dimin Niu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tianchan Guan (Shanghai), Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Canada) and Shuangchen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory module can include a hybrid media controller coupled to a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a non-volatile memory buffer and a set of memory mapped input/output (MMIO) register. The hybrid media controller can be configured for reading and writin...