ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,471, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Clustering in a storage system" was invented by Eyal Gordon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Asaf Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eitan Yaakobi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sagi Grimberg (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Roman Veinbrand (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for clustering and re-clustering in a storage system, the method includes (a) randomly selecting a first number of sets of clusters of a vast number of clusters stored in the storage system; wherein the vast number of clusters comprises first clusters and second clusters, wherein each first cluster is gene...