US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 27 for "Garbage collecting chunks for flexible data placement drives" (Massachusetts, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,390, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Garbage collecting chunks for flexible data placement drives" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Jason Goldschmidt (Newton, Mass.), Peter Corbett (Lexington, Mass.), Doron Tal (Newton, Mass.) and Arthur Lent (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can present computer storage resources as a consumer storage system, which abstracts resources as chunks in a chunkmanager, which abstracts resources in an uberstore, wherein the uberstore abstracts drives that implement a flexible data placement capability, and wherein the flexi...