ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,323, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VDURA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sequential reconstruction for dynamic stripe width RAID" was invented by Donald James Brady (Woodland Park, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system stores and sequentially reconstruct a set of data. The system divides the set of data into the plurality of blocks and adds, for each block, a block pointer to a zone group index corresponding to a zone group of the block. In response to allocating a final block for a zone group, the system writes the zone group index in a same transaction group as the data in the respective zone group. The system stores a block...