ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,645, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multimedia on demand method, apparatus, system, computational storage drive and storage medium" was invented by Ruyi Zhang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Xue He (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Peiwei Li (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia on demand system includes a host, and a computational storage drive. The host transmits, to the computational storage drive, a first request for multimedia on demand. The computational storage drive, in response to the first request, performs an on demand processing process for multime...