ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,791, issued on June 9, was assigned to SCALEFLUX INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Storage-memory fusion drive with direct processor-storage access data path" was invented by Yang Liu (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiangpeng Li (San Jose, Calif.), Fei Sun (Irvine, Calif.) and Tong Zhang (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory drive and associated method. The memory drive includes: a plurality of solid-state devices (SSDs); a plurality of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) devices; and a controller configured to implement a data management process. The data management process includes: partitioning the DRAM devices into SSD-domain DRAM hav...