US Patent Issued to NetApp on Jan. 27 for "Defragmentation for log structured merge tree to improve read and write amplification" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,141, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Defragmentation for log structured merge tree to improve read and write amplification" was invented by Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.), Wei Sun (Boulder, Colo.), Meera Odugoudar (Milpitas, Calif.), Szu-Wen Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Santhosh Selvaraj (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a defragmentation process during a merge operation performed by a re-compaction process upon a log structured merge tree. The log structured merge tree is used to store keys of key-value pairs within a key-value store. As ...