US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 15 for "Efficient handling of storage objects having associated expiration times" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,141, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Efficient handling of storage objects having associated expiration times" was invented by Evgeny Malkevich (Newton, Mass.), Fangyuan Cui (Westford, Mass.), Saoni Mukherjee (Milford, Mass.), Ryan Lesko (Waltham, Mass.) and George Tucker Gettel (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises at least one processing device configured to maintain a cyclic array of storage object queues each associated with one of a set of two or more different time intervals. The at least one processing device is also conf...