US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 7 for "Methods and systems for managing compressed data in disk blocks" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,217, issued on July 7, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for managing compressed data in disk blocks" was invented by Roopesh Chuggani (Jaipur, India), Girish Hebbale Venkatasubbaiah (Bangalore, India), Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar (Bangalore, India), Venkateswarlu Tella (Bangalore, India), Kevin Daniel Varghese (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sushilkumar Gangadharan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems involve sequentially storing compressed data segments received at a storage system in disk blocks such that at least one of the disk blocks includes compressed data from at least t...