US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 7 for "Computing systems and methods providing data mobility from a file to block storage" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,615, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Computing systems and methods providing data mobility from a file to block storage" was invented by Arthur Lent (Newton, Mass.) and Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique may include generating a snapshot from a proprietary format, generating a snapshot of a block-based backend storage system, where the snapshot of the block-based back in storage system references the snapshot from the proprietary format. APIs associated with the proprietary format may then be used to read out application data as blocks and to wr...