US Patent Issued on July 14 for "System, method and apparatus for accelerating fast block devices" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,852, issued on July 14.

"System, method and apparatus for accelerating fast block devices" was invented by Douglas Dumitru (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Samuel J. Anderson (Wallingford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, method and system is directed to fast data storage on a block storage device. New data is linearly written to an empty write block. A location of the new data is tracked. Meta data associated with the new data is linearly written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the meta data. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a logical address to a physical address."

The patent ...