ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,875, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).
"Dynamic grow volume" was invented by Ashok Kumar Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Arumugam Nallasivam (Bangalore, India) and Asit Amitab Mishra (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Usage of a storage volume is monitored, including monitoring a write frequency and an overwrite frequency for the storage volume. The overwrite frequency may be obtained from garbage collection data for the storage volume. The write frequency and overwrite frequency may be used to obtain a growth rate and predict future usage of the storage volume. Where future usage indicates th...