ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,334, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Data deduplication techniques for unaligned data pages" was invented by Maor Rahamim (Ramla, Israel), Michael P. Wahl (Bulverde, Texas) and Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include performing sector aligned data deduplication for a sequence of pages including: performing a search phase and identifying a target set of one or more target pages, wherein a first target page of the target set is included in a second sequence of previously written pages; and performing an expansion phase including: based on th...