US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Providing scalable and concurrent file systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,142, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Providing scalable and concurrent file systems" was invented by Jaspal Kohli (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sunil Kumar Tekkatte Subramanya (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for providing scalable and concurrent file systems. A backend storage system comprising an interface and a processing unit may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface may present the file system storing objects representative of data. The processing unit may receive, from a frontend host system coupled to the backend storage...