ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,215, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scalable key value storage in a distributed storage system" was invented by Brent Ryan Nash (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Timothy Jason Berger (Eastvale, Calif.), Sean Berry (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Audumbar Chormale (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing a scalable key value storage in a distributed storage separate the storage of the collection of data objects from the storage of the index corresponding to the collection. According to an implementation, a database service may receive a request to create a collection ...