US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 16 for "File system improvements for zoned storage device operations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,887, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"File system improvements for zoned storage device operations" was invented by Rajsekhar Das (Sammamish, Wash.) and Neeraj Kumar Singh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to efficiently interface with zoned namespace (ZNS) storage devices through a specialized management entity. To achieve this, the management entity receives write requests from a file system containing data intended for storage at the ZNS device. In response, the management entity selects a zone from the ZNS device to write ...