US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Lowering emergency capacity reservations for storage systems" (Minnesota, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,982, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Lowering emergency capacity reservations for storage systems" was invented by Grigor Avagyan (Redmond, Wash.) and Steven Randel Soltis (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to reducing or eliminating emergency capacity usage in a storage system by including an in-process space reclamation and/or one or more mitigation mechanisms. The in-process space reclamation can be implemented in addition to a background space reclamation. The one or more mitigation mechanisms can be associated with a basis for write requ...