ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,295, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power management for solid state drives in a network" was invented by Yaron Klein (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a network of SSDs includes a switch with a plurality of powered ports configured to be communicatively coupled to a controller and a host client and a plurality of SSDs configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of powered ports. The switch is configured to deliver up to a predefined power level to each of the plurality of SSDs via the plurality of powered port. Each of the plurality of SSDs consumes power. The ...