ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,230, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent layout of composite data structures in tiered storage with persistent memory" was invented by Johnu George (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Kumar Saha (Mahadevpura Bangalore, India), Arun Saha (Fremont, Calif.) and Debojyoti Dutta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to ways to determine the optimal storage of data structures in a hierarchy of memory types. In some aspects, a process of the technology can include steps for identifying a retrieval cost associated with retrieving a field in an ob...