ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,525, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Access method of storage device and virtual device" was invented by Peiwei Li (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gaofei Lv (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access method of a storage device and a virtual device are provided. The storage device supports a single root input output virtualization (SR-IOV), the storage device is virtualized as at least two virtual functions (VFs), the access method comprises: in response to an input/output (I/O) request for the storage device by an application, transmitting the I/O request to a...