US Patent Issued to Lemon on March 3 for "Hybrid design for large scale block device compression using flat hash table" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,547, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Hybrid design for large scale block device compression using flat hash table" was invented by Ping Zhou (Los Angeles), Longxiao Li (Los Angeles), Chaohong Hu (Los Angeles), Fei Liu (Los Angeles), Kan Frankie Fan (Los Angeles) and Hui Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat hash table includes a plurality of entries, and each entry includes a hash function index and a usage bitmap. A method for block device level compression mapping using the flat hash table includes compressing uncompressed data to compressed data, retrieving an entry...