ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,065, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Lightweight kernel driver for virtualized storage" was invented by Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh (Ra'anana, Israel), Orit Wasserman (Ra'anana, Israel) and Uri Lublin (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing table is requested from a storage device operatively coupled to the computing device, the routing table comprising a routing table entry mapping a virtual storage address to a destination storage address of the storage device. An input/output (I/O) request is received from an application executing on the computing device, the I/O request comprising ...