US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Oct. 20 for "Extending a parallel file system with a vector database abstraction layer" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,717, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Extending a parallel file system with a vector database abstraction layer" was invented by Jean-Pierre Bono (Westboro, Mass.), Xiangping Chen (Sherborn, Mass.) and Himabindu Tummala (South Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel file system (PFS) can be enhanced with a vector database abstraction layer (VDAL) to manage both data objects and their corresponding vector embeddings. An associated metadata server can be employed to track how these data objects, embeddings, and vector indexes are organized, enabling parallel operations across mu...