US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on March 17 for "Garbage collection for object-based storage systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,897, issued on March 17, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Garbage collection for object-based storage systems" was invented by Lakshman Chaitanya (Phoenix), Arindam Chatterjee (Phoenix), Pratap Singh Singh Rathore (Phoenix), Shourya Roy (Bangalore, India), Nitish Sharma (Phoenix), Swatee Singh (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Mohammad Torkzahrani (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for garbage collection for object-based storage systems. A first set of objects stored in a data object store is identified as not meeting criteria for deletion or archiving,...