ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,353, issued on April 14, was assigned to Vast Data Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Hash based filter" was invented by Eyal Gordon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Asaf Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cluster based searching for a value range stored in a storage system, the method may include receiving a request to find a certain value range within a set of information elements that are stored in a storage system; wherein the set of information elements comprises subsets of information elements associated with subset hash based filters; wherein different subsets of information elements are associated with different...