US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Key-value store and file system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,254, issued on Dec. 30.

"Key-value store and file system" was invented by Hao Wang (Los Angeles), Jiaxin Ou (Beijing), Sheng Qiu (Los Angeles), Yi Wang (Beijing), Zhengyu Yang (Los Angeles), Yizheng Jiao (Los Angeles), Jingwei Zhang (Beijing), Jianyang Hu (Beijing), Yang Liu (Los Angeles), Ming Zhao (Beijing), Hui Zhang (Los Angeles), Kuankuan Guo (Beijing), Huan Sun (Los Angeles) and Yinlin Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key-value store and a file system are integrated together to provide improved operations. The key-value store can include a log engine, a hash engine, a sorting engine, and a garbage collection ...