ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,081, issued on June 30, was assigned to Qumulo Inc. (Seattle).

"Prefetching read caches based on usage patterns" was invented by Matthew Christopher McMullan (Bellevue, Wash.), Pathirat Kosakanchit (Seattle), Ying Fairweather (Sammamish, Wash.), Conor Marks McAvity (Olympia, Wash.) and Porter Michael Smith (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments prefetch read caches based on usage patterns. A workload session associated with one or more requests may be employed to perform actions, including: collecting one or more pattern handlers associated with an identifier of the workload session and a file system item; collect...