ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,069, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for efficient flushing and providing optimal resource utilization" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel), Geng Han (Beijing) and Jibing Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: receiving virtual utilizations (VUs) for resources consumed in connection with recording entries in a log for commands or operations, wherein each resource has a corresponding VU which denotes a number of allocated units of the resource associated with entries of the log which have not been flushed f...