ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,214, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system with efficient block consolidation" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A list of a available zones across respective SSD storage portions of a plurality of zoned storage devices of a storage system is maintained. Data is received from multiple sources, wherein the data is associated with processing a dataset, the dataset including multiple volumes and associated metadata. Shards of the data are determined such that each shard is capable of being written in parallel with the remaining shards. The sh...