ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,974, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for cache configuration based on storage placement" was invented by Zongwang Li (Dublin, Calif.), Tong Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a first memory media, a second memory media, and at least one control circuit configured to receive placement information for data, store, in a portion of the first memory media, based on the placement information, the data, and store, in a portion of the second memory media, based on the placement inf...