ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,723, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optimized file scanning using multi-type volume attachments and sequential block read pre-warming" was invented by Kunjan Shridhar Naik (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Aravind Santhanam (Redmond, Wash.), Shlomo Yehezkel (West Hills, Calif.) and Ashay S. Manjure (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optimized file scanning using multi-type volume attachments and sequential block read pre-warming are described. A network-based logical storage volume of a first type providing high input-output operations per second (IOPS) is attached to ...