ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,279, issued on May 13, was assigned to Weka.IO Ltd. (Israel).

"File operations in 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. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of ...