ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,695, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Multitenancy SSD access control" was invented by Daniel Lee Helmick (Thornton, Colo.), Mark Allen Gaertner (Fort Myers, Fla.), Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu (San Carlos, Calif.), Siamak Arya (Cupertino, Calif.), Vipin Kumar Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Vasili Zhdankin (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for multitenancy SSD access control. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include determining capabilities of a storage...