US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "User-space parallel access channel for traditional filesystem using CAPI technology" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,596, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User-space parallel access channel for traditional filesystem using CAPI technology" was invented by Kavana Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Shajith Chandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User process to directly access a file in a file system. A user process first opens a file in the file system for access. In the process of opening the file, a file handle for the file is returned to the user process by an operating system kernel. The user process then makes a read request to a special function unit for one or more blocks of ...