ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,438, issued on March 11, was assigned to Capital Thought Holdings LLC (Fayetteville, N.C.).
"Data storage system and method" was invented by Allen Nuttle (Fayetteville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented that utilize separate append-only arrays to track metadata and real data for a file. All modifications to the file result in metadata records being appended to the end of the metadata array. Write modification commands cause real data to be appended to the file data array. The location of real data on the file data array is identified by a record in the metadata array. Modification commands can be ...