US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on Nov. 11 for "Distributed data storage system using erasure coding on storage nodes fewer than data plus parity fragments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,481, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Distributed data storage system using erasure coding on storage nodes fewer than data plus parity fragments" was invented by Anand Vishwanath Vastrad (San Jose, Calif.), Avinash Lakshman (Fremont, Calif.), Suhani Gupta (San Jose, Calif.) and Srinivas Lakshman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data storage system using erasure coding (EC) provides advantages of EC data storage while retaining high resiliency for EC data storage architectures having fewer data storage nodes than the number of EC data-plus-parity fragments....