ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,607, issued on June 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Adaptive cache replacement algorithms for segmented cache" was invented by Kaustubh Sahasrabudhe (Westborough, Mass.), Steve Ivester (Grafton, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system, comprising: detecting an event; and in response to the event, changing one or more replacement algorithms that are being used by the storage system, wherein changing the one or more replacement algorithms includes: (-)selecting a first segment in a cache of the storage system, the first segment being ser...