ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,351, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Metadata management method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Hongyu Zhu (Jiangsu, China), Jian Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Dan Liu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a metadata management method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: forming a disk space by using RAIDs, dividing the disk space into blocks, combining the blocks crossing disks into one stripe, and forming stripes into a logical volume allocation un...