ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,404, issued on June 2, was assigned to WEKA.IO Ltd. (Israel).

"Tiering data strategy for a distributed storage system" was invented by Maor Ben Dayan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Omri Palmon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Liran Zvibel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Kanael Arditti (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The storage devices may be assigned to one of a plurality of memory tiers, and the data in a storage device may be reassigned to anot...