ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,372, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).
"Data transfer device and method" was invented by Kunihiro Nagasawa (Tokyo), Shoji Kato (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryota Tatsuuma (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology of conducting data transfer without 4-kB boundary crossing. A data transfer device includes a metadata creation section that creates metadata including a transfer destination address, a data transfer section that divides transfer data into a plurality of packets, imparts the metadata to a head packet, and sequentially transfers the plurality of packets, and a d...