US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Demultiplexing storage volume boundaries within virtual storage block device" (Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,659, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Demultiplexing storage volume boundaries within virtual storage block device" was invented by Brian Ray Fabec (Round Rock, Texas), Kevin Kuhner (Cary, N.C.), John Henry Welborn Jr. (Cary, N.C.) and Kenny Huang (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture for demultiplexing volumes in a storage device includes a virtual machine. A guest operating system is in the virtual machine. The architecture further includes a storage pool of virtual storage blocks and a hypervisor. The hypervisor is configured to organize the sto...