ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,361, issued on June 2, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Data redundancy for latency sensitive writes" was invented by Itay Khazon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yogev Vaknin (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alon Berger (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safe storage of a data portion, the method includes (a) receiving, at a storage system, the data portion; (b) selecting, based on at least a timing parameter, a redundancy scheme for safe storage of the data portion; wherein the redundancy scheme is selected out of (i) mirroring the data portion and (ii) applying a stripe based protection on the data portion, a...