US Patent Issued to Everpure on Sept. 1 for "Storage of data and metadata in a storage network" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,367, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Everpure Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage of data and metadata in a storage network" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Wesley Leggette (Chicago), Andrew Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for storing data and metadata in a storage network. In a method, one or more processing modules of a storage network establishes a vault as a virtual memory block that maps to memory of the storage network. The method further includes receiving data for storage in the vault, selecting a first vault parameter se...