ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,585, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Offloading data storage device processing tasks to a graphics processing unit" was invented by Eran Moshe (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Idan Goldenberg (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for offloading data storage processing tasks from a data storage device to a graphics processing unit data are described. Data storage devices may include a peripheral interface configured to connect to a host system and provide access to a host memory buffer. The data storage device may store tas...