US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 7 for "Hybrid tiered storage for cloud platforms" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,534, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid tiered storage for cloud platforms" was invented by Armaan Sood (Bellevue, Wash.), Sam Detjen (Redmond, Wash.), Rodrigo Siqueira De Souza (Redmond, Wash.), Hanumantha R Kodavalla (Redmond, Wash.), Krishnan Sundaram (Redmond, Wash.), Hari Sudan Sundar (Redmond, Wash.), Sreekanth Kolla (Redmond, Wash.) and Tamara Hass (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, a cloud platform implementing a tiered storage that decouples Request Units from storage is disclosed. Data received from partitions that are characterize...