ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,606, issued on June 2, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage device with encoded data lookup" was invented by Brian T. Gold (Los Altos, Calif.), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hardware assisted data lookup in a storage unit is provided. The method includes formatting data in at least one of a plurality of data formats for storage in the storage unit. The method includes configuring a logic unit with one or more parameters associated with the plurality of data formats and identifying incoming data with the one or more parameters a...