ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,105, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data storage apparatus and data processing method" was invented by Han Lin (Shanghai), Yuxuan Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Jianjiang Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a data storage apparatus and a data processing method. The data storage apparatus includes a memory and a first near-data processing NDP unit, the first NDP unit is electrically connected to the memory, and the data storage apparatus is connected to a processor through a bus. The first NDP unit is configured to store first physical address infor...