US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 10 for "Dynamic scaling of storage volumes for storage client file systems" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,240, issued on June 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic scaling of storage volumes for storage client file systems" was invented by Andries Petrus Johannes Dippenaar (Cape Town, South Africa) and Gavin Alexander Bramhill (Cape Town, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-based data store maintaining storage volumes for file systems at storage clients may implement dynamic storage volume scaling. A scaling event may be detected according to a specified scaling policy for a storage volume maintained at a network-based data store that is mounted at a storage client and configured for a file sy...