ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,509, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Updating volume data references in a storage system" was invented by David Grunwald (San Francisco), Christopher Golden (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Jianting Cao (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Smith (San Mateo, Calif.), Qi Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wentian Cui (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Converting data formats in a storage system: converting first data in a first format to second data in a second format, wherein second data in the second format includes a reference to the first data, wherein the first data and the second data are associa...