ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,775, issued on June 17.
"Fast block device, system and methodology" was invented by Douglas Dumitru (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Samuel J. Anderson (Wallingford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, memory, method and system directed to fast data storage on a block storage device that reduces operational wear on the device. New data is written to an empty write block with a number of write blocks being reused. A location of the new data is tracked. Metadata associated with the new data is written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the metadata. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a log...