ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,098, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for prefetching data via a host-accessible prefetcher queue" was invented by Tong Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Zongwang Li (Dublin, Calif.), Da Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for prefetching data are disclosed. A processor executes a first command for moving first data stored in a storage device. Based on the first command, the processor stores, into a first queue of the storage device, a first address asso...