ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,584, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method of disk sharing for cloud content storage" was invented by Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sungwook Ryu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content provider system includes: a repository to store a catalog of content; a storage device including at least a first port and a second port; a first hosted device connected to the first port over a first storage interface for access to the storage device, and to execute content stored in the storage device to provide the content to a first user device; a sec...