ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,665, issued on March 3, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Modular parity caching for data storage and recovery" was invented by Matthew Walters (Toluca Lake, Calif.), Jacqueline Hutchinson (Temecula, Calif.) and Juerg W. Grieder (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing modular parity caching includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a dataset, identify a first storage medium for storing the dataset, determine a target data size for a data subset, and partition...