ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,552, issued on March 3, was assigned to VDURA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-stream write-ahead log optimized for flash-based storage devices" was invented by Shafeeq Sinnamohideen (Pittsburgh), Aliaksei Karaliou (Minsk, Belarus) and Ian Davies (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system is configured to manage a write-ahead log on a flash-based non-volatile storage device. The system divides the device's logical address space into multiple regions, each comprising a header portion with fixed-size record headers and a data portion for variable-length records. The system receives incoming write operations and tem...