ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,624, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TrustTeks Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Hot-data-based decision-making method for using in a storage device of a computer" was invented by Yuan-Mao Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wan-Ru Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-data-based decision-making method for using in a computer having a storage device that includes plural storage units. The method includes processing a new datum to obtain a new data fingerprint and at least two storage index values; and determining whether a datum in the storage unit corresponding to any of the storage index values matches the new datum, and if s...