US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 29 for "Dynamic arrangement of data chunks in storage" (Arizona, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,760, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic arrangement of data chunks in storage" was invented by Joseph W. Dain (Tucson, Ariz.), Yu-Cheng Hsu (Tucson, Ariz.), Swaminathan Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Henri Muench (San Jose, Calif.), Khanh Vi Ngo (Tucson, Ariz.), Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jonas Alexander Pfefferle (Long Island City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, according to one approach, includes: storing pointers in a vector database, the pointers referencing respective source data chunks on a storage device. Moreover, simi...