ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,866, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Compaction method and device for sorted strings table files" was invented by Yiwen Zhang (XiAn, China), Yanlong Yang (XiAn, China), Yuqi Zhang (XiAn, China) and Xing He (XiAn, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a compaction method and device for Sorted String Table (SST) files stored in zones of a Zoned Namespace Solid State Drive. The method includes: determining compaction priorities of a first plurality of SST files in a first level of a LSM-Tree based on attribute information of a first plurality of zones corresponding to...